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The wolverine's questionable reputation as an insatiable glutton (reflected in its Latin genus name Gulo, meaning "glutton") may be in part due to a false etymology.The less common name for the animal in Norwegian, fjellfross, meaning "mountain cat", is thought to have worked its way into German as Vielfraß, [5] which means "glutton" (literally "devours much").
The zoological park is designed by Jon Coe, a leading international zoo designer from Australia. [3] [4] [5] The zoo is being constructed up on 336 acres at Puthur at the estimated cost of Rs 130 crore. The zoological park is being constructed in three phases.
View at the National Zoo, Washington, D.C., 1909. The zoo first started as the National Museum's Department of Living Animals in 1886. [12] By an act of Congress on March 2, 1889, [13] [14] [15] for "the advancement of science and the instruction and recreation of the people", the National Zoo was created.
Daxton goes to check on the zoo's endangered gorilla, Kifo, finding him infected. Kifo kills him and invades the lab. Rex stabs him, but Kifo crushes his head in retaliation. Meanwhile, a police team arrives at the zoo to attempt to eliminate the threat but are killed by a pride of infected lions. Amber reaches the front gate and demands that ...
The children use their imaginations, intelligence, and the friendship of another denizen, the Whiffle Bird, to outwit the traps. The kids finally meet the last Whangdoodle. It turns out he wants a female Whangdoodle to be his queen, so he won't be lonely, and Professor Savant's knowledge and talents have the ability to grant this to the ...
The Zoo was located in Regent's Park—then undergoing development at the hands of the architect John Nash. What set the London zoo apart from its predecessors was its focus on society at large. The zoo was established in the middle of a city for the public, and its layout was designed to cater for the large London population.
Denizen, a 2010 feature film directed, written and produced by J.A. Steel; Denizen, a computer game published by Players Software in 1988; Denizen, a brand of the clothing company Levi Strauss & Co. Denization, an obsolete common-law process by which a foreigner gained some rights of a British subject
The zoo hypothesis assumes a civilization may have a ten-million, one-hundred-million, or half-billion-year head start on humanity, [13] i.e., it may have the capability to completely negate our best attempts to detect it. The zoo hypothesis relies in part on applying the concept of hegemonic power to the Fermi paradox.