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In ancient times, the zebra was called hippotigris ("horse tiger") by the Greeks and Romans. [5] [6] The word zebra was traditionally pronounced with a long initial vowel, but over the course of the 20th century the pronunciation with the short initial vowel became the norm in British English. [7]
Aal - eel; aalen - to stretch out; aalglatt - slippery; Aas - carrion/rotting carcass; aasen - to be wasteful; Aasgeier - vulture; ab - from; abarbeiten - to work off/slave away
The German naturalist Reinhold Rau, pioneer of the Quagga Project, claimed that this is an optical illusion: that the base colour is a creamy white and that the stripes are thick and dark. [11] Living in the very southern end of the plains zebra's range, the quagga had a thick winter coat that moulted each year.
A First World War Canadian electoral campaign poster. Hun (or The Hun) is a term that originally refers to the nomadic Huns of the Migration Period.Beginning in World War I it became an often used pejorative seen on war posters by Western Allied powers and the basis for a criminal characterization of the Germans as barbarians with no respect for civilization and humanitarian values having ...
Below is a list of German language exonyms for formerly German places and other places in non-German-speaking areas of the world. Archaic names are in italics . Algeria
The answer rests in something called melanocytes -- or the cells inside a zebra that produce the black pigment of their skin. ... Either way you look at it, zebra stripes are both useful and ...
A marble cake (German: Marmorkuchen, pronounced [ˈmaʁmoːɐ̯ˌkuːxn̩] ⓘ), or Marmor (German: [ˈmaʁmoːɐ̯] ⓘ lit. ' marble ')) is a cake with a streaked or mottled appearance (like marble) achieved by very lightly blending light and dark batter. [1] Due to its zebra-striped pattern, it is also called zebra cake.
The user, @nunchakusdragon, who called himself an "animal expert," recently posted a seemingly satirical video in which he alleged the Cincinnati Zoo bred a zebra with a giraffe to create a ...