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The ancient Greeks had unique animal naming conventions. Pets would sometimes be given names, but only those which could not be given to a human. Indicating that they were not seen as equals. [182] Dogs were seen as a positive reflection of the owner’s masculinity and bravery. [183] Birds were valuable pets in the ancient world.
He argued that non-human animals can reason, sense, and feel just as human beings do. [9] Theophrastus did not prevail, and it was Aristotle's position—that human and non-human animals exist in different moral realms because one is rational and the other not—that persisted largely unchallenged in the West for nearly two thousand years.
List of eurypterid genera; List of mosasaur genera; List of prehistoric annelid genera; List of prehistoric barnacles; List of prehistoric brittle stars; List of prehistoric bryozoan genera; List of prehistoric chitons; List of prehistoric foraminifera genera; List of ichthyosaur genera; List of marine gastropod genera in the fossil record ...
In many ancient civilizations there are references to animals and their meaning within that specific religion or mythology that we know of today. These civilizations included Egypt and their gods with the faces of animals or Greece which had symbolic animals for their godly beings, an example being Zeus and the eagle. [ 14 ]
Makara (Hindu mythology) – half terrestrial animal in the frontal part (stag, deer, or elephant) and half aquatic animal in the hind part (usually of a fish, a seal, or a snake, though sometimes a peacock or even a floral tail is depicted) Mug-wamp - (Canadian) giant sturgeon monster said to inhabit Lake Temiskaming in Ontario. Name is of ...
KADGAONKAR, SHIVENDRA B. "THE ROLE OF ANIMALS AND BIRDS IN ANCIENT INDIAN ART AND CULTURE." Bulletin of the Deccan College Research Institute 68/69 (2008): 163–65. JSTOR 42931202. Ratcliffe, Brett C. "Scarab Beetles in Human Culture." Coleopterists Society Monographs. Patricia Vaurie Series, no. 5 (2006): 85–101. JSTOR 4153165.
This is an incomplete list of prehistoric mammals. It does not include extant mammals or recently extinct mammals . For extinct primate species, see: list of fossil primates .
Phoenicia was an ancient civilisation centred in the north of ancient Canaan, with its heartland along the coastal regions of modern-day Lebanon, Syria and Israel. Phoenician civilisation was an enterprising maritime trading culture that spread across the Mediterranean between the period of 1550 to 300 BC. [ 57 ]