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Animals had a variety of roles and functions in ancient Greece and Rome. Fish and birds were served as food. Species such as donkeys and horses served as work animals. The military used elephants. It was common to keep animals such as parrots, cats, or dogs as pets. Many animals held important places in the Graeco-Roman religion or culture.
With its varied topography and habitats, Greece has a rich bird fauna. It is a meeting point for birds of three continents, the southern limit for some species and the northern limit for others. Beside the resident bird populations, many migratory species visit the country as they move seasonally between their breeding grounds and their ...
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This list shows the IUCN Red List status of the 115 mammal species occurring in Greece.Two of them are endangered, twelve are vulnerable, and six are near threatened.The following tags are used to highlight each species' status as assessed on the respective IUCN Red List published by the International Union for Conservation of Nature:
Fauna of Greece may refer to: List of birds of Greece; List of mammals of Greece; List of reptiles of Greece; List of amphibians of Greece; See also. Outline of Greece
This list of the reptiles of Greece is primarily based on the Atlas of the Amphibians and Reptiles of Greece (2020), published under the auspices of the Societas Hellenica Herpetologica, supplemented by the IUCN Red List. [1] [2] Of the 66 (IUCN) or 76 (Atlas) species recognized, 11 are endemic, while 3 are assessed as endangered. [1]: 11–13 [2]
In both the Greek book of Genesis (the Septuaginta (LXX)) and the Hebrew book of Genesis, animals and humans are said to be, not have, a living soul. [ 12 ] [ better source needed ] This living soul that non-human animals and humans are, is called nephesh, and is associated with the breath of life that YHWH has given in each individual [ 12 ...
All three words are cognates of the name of the Greek god Pan, and panis is the Modern Greek equivalent of fauna (πανίς or rather πανίδα). Fauna is also the word for a book that catalogues the animals in such a manner. The term was first used by Carl Linnaeus from Sweden in the title of his 1745 [1] work Fauna Suecica.