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Common names of animal species are written either in title case or sentence case depending upon the taxonomic group (shown below). In title case, the first letter of every important word is capitalized (e.g., Grey Currawong, Duke of Burgundy), except for words that follow a hyphen (e.g., Brown-headed Spider Monkey).
The Manual of Style, at MOS:LIFE, [a] calls for capitalisation of standardized breeds and cultivars (not breed groups/types, landraces, crossbreeds, hybrids, colour variants of breeds, etc.). When appended to the name of a standardised breed or cultivar as natural disambiguation, the species name is not capitalised: Siamese cat, Hass avocado.
Wikipedia avoids unnecessary capitalization.In English, capitalization is primarily needed for proper names, acronyms, and for the first letter of a sentence. [a] Wikipedia relies on sources to determine what is conventionally capitalized; only words and phrases that are consistently capitalized in a substantial majority of independent, reliable sources are capitalized in Wikipedia.
The collective term for a natural grouping of species, domesticated type of organism, or range of breeds or varieties, is always written in lower case (except where a proper name occurs): New World monkeys, slime mold, rove beetles, great apes, mountain dogs, a spitz-type dog breed, hound group, long-haired breed group section, triticale, blood ...
However, some breed names were previously also used to describe groups of dogs (pointers, cocker spaniels, scottish terriers) and these are lower case, but these terms shouldn't be mixed up with the breed names. The consensus in the Dogs Project is that the guidelines used by the KC, AKC and FCI amongst others which capitalise all words in a ...
This list of dog breeds includes both extant and extinct dog breeds, varieties and types. A research article on dog genomics published in Science/AAAS defines modern dog breeds as "a recent invention defined by conformation to a physical ideal and purity of lineage". [1] According to BigThink, over 40% of the world's dog breeds come from the ...
2. Acorn Woodpecker. These birds get their name from their unique habit of storing acorns in trees, which they use as a food source. Sometimes, they can store tens of thousands of them.
Wikipedia does not capitalize the names of any kind of grouping (type, breed group, feral population, landrace, species common name, etc.) of organism, including domesticated animals. An exception is made for the formal names of standardized breeds, which are treated as proper names and capitalized exactly as they appear in the breed standards.