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Rotary International is an international service organization based in Evanston, Illinois, US. Members of Rotary clubs are called "Rotarians." This is a list of notable current and former active and honorary members of Rotary International clubs:
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Used for early versions of animals and plants. Examples: ... Used for broad categories of animals, or in certain names of animals.
An 1834 English translation uses the term Radiata, and titles the division "The Zoophytes, or Animalia Radiata", [10] an expanded 1840 translation notes that "Neither of these names is literally applicable, for all the animals in the division are not radiated; and the very name Zoophyte, 'plant - animal,' is a contradiction. In England, the ...
In the English language, many animals have different names depending on whether they are male, female, young, domesticated, or in groups. The best-known source of many English words used for collective groupings of animals is The Book of Saint Albans , an essay on hunting published in 1486 and attributed to Juliana Berners . [ 1 ]
The largest living land animal, the African bush elephant, is a herbivore. This is a list of herbivorous animals, organized in a roughly taxonomic manner. In general, entries consist of animal species known with good certainty to be overwhelmingly herbivorous, as well as genera and families which contain a preponderance of such species.
Over 1.5 million living animal species have been described—of which around 1 million are insects—but it has been estimated there are over 7 million in total. Animals range in size from 8.5 millionths of a metre to 33.6 metres (110 ft) long and have complex interactions with each other and their environments, forming intricate food webs .
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This is a list of species of plants and animals protected by Appendix I of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, commonly abbreviated as CITES. There are no fungi listed in any appendix. [1] List of species protected by CITES Appendix II; List of species protected by CITES Appendix III