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The Greek word (Greek: κῠνοκέφᾰλοι) "dog-head" also identified a sacred Egyptian baboon with a dog-like face. [5] Rather than literally depicting a hybrid human-animal state, these cynocephalic portrayals of deities conveyed those deities' therianthropic ability to shift between fully human and fully animal states. [6]
Inmyeonjo – A human face with bird body creature in ancient Korean mythology. Karura – A divine creature of Japanese Hindu-Buddhist mythology with the head of a bird and the torso of a human. Kuk – Kuk's male form has a frog head while his female form has a snake head. Meretseger – The cobra-headed Egyptian Goddess.
Araneus gemmoides, commonly known as the jewel spider (a name shared with Austracantha minax) and cat-faced spider (a name shared with Araneus gemma), is a common, outdoor, orb-weaver spider found in Canada and the USA. [1] It is considered harmless and has a low-toxicity venom. [2] A. gemmoides is a useful natural predator for insects. [1] [3] [4]
"Aunt Nancy" is a female character on the SYFY series Superstition, portrayed by Jasmine Guy. Kwaku Ananse is a 2013 short film by Akosua Adoma Owusu. Anansi is the name of a villain in Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir [voiced by Laila Berzins], who has spider-like abilities, including webbing and extra limbs.
Heroic character examples of human-animal anthropomorphic characters include the two protagonists of the 2002 movie The Cat Returns (Japanese title: 猫の恩返し), with the animated film featuring a young girl (named "Haru") being transformed against her will into a feline-human hybrid and fighting a villainous king of the cats with the help ...
The male nursery web spider then rotates the female about three to five times, wrapping his silk around her legs and immobilizing them. Throughout this stage, the legs of the female are fixed in a flexed position, bounded by either the veil of silk from the male, or the legs of the male. [ 9 ]
The spider’s behavior was “surprising” but not entirely novel, he added, noting that some species of bolas spiders attracted male moths by producing chemicals that mimic female moth pheromones.
Itsumade – monstrous bird with a human face; Jingwei – a bird who is determined to fill up the sea; Lamassu (Mesopotamian) – goddess with a human head, the body of a bull or a lion, and bird wings; Luan – a bird which carries a shield and tramples on snakes while wearing one on its breast