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Pieter Boddaert (1730–1795/1796), Dutch physician and naturalist [48] who named many mammals, birds and other animals; Brendan J. M. Bohannan (21st century), American microbial and evolutionary biologist, expert on the microbes of Amazonia; Charles Lucien Bonaparte (1803–1857), French naturalist [49] who coined Latin names for many bird species
The African black-footed cat is not a danger to people, or even to wildebeests, gazelle, or jackrabbits, but birds fear it and rats tell stories about it to their children to make them behave.
A lion (Panthera leo).Lions are an example of charismatic megafauna, a group of wildlife species that are especially popular in human culture.. Wildlife refers to undomesticated animals and uncultivated plant species which can exist in their natural habitat, but has come to include all organisms that grow or live wild in an area without being introduced by humans. [1]
[a] For example, the kind of animal called a bird has feathers, a beak, wings, a hard-shelled egg, and warm blood. [ 4 ] Aristotle further noted that there are many bird forms within the bird kind – cranes , eagles , crows , bustards , sparrows , and so on, just as there are many forms of fishes within the fish kind.
Biographers are authors who write an account of another person's life, while autobiographers are authors who write their own biography. Biographers. Countries of ...
Image credits: Sasha Weilbaker #3 Bird Safe Glass. Every day, hundreds of birds die from flying into glass windows. This doesn’t just affect birds but also poses a risk to property owners.
The Birds of America is a book by naturalist and painter John James Audubon, containing illustrations of a wide variety of birds of the United States. It was first published as a series in sections between 1827 and 1838, in Edinburgh and London.
Some zookeepers train the animals to make caring for them easier. For example, a zookeeper can train an elephant to lift their feet so that a veterinarian can check them more easily. [4] Some zookeepers are responsible for informing an audience, in an exhibit or presentation, about certain types of animals and their behavioral characteristics ...