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List of legendary creatures from China. List of legendary creatures from France. List of legendary creatures from Japan. List of legendary creatures in Hindu mythology. List of named animals and plants in Germanic heroic legend. List of Philippine mythological creatures. List of spiritual entities in Islam. Mythical creatures in Burmese folklore.
Animals had a variety of roles and functions in ancient Greece and Rome. Fish and birds were served as food. Species such as donkeys and horses served as work animals. The military used elephants. It was common to keep animals such as parrots, cats, or dogs as pets. Many animals held important places in the Graeco-Roman religion or culture.
List of individual bears. List of giant pandas. List of individual birds. List of individual cats. List of longest-living cats. List of individual dogs. List of longest-living dogs. List of individual elephants. List of historical horses.
Caladrius (Roman) – white bird with healing powers. Chalkydri (Jewish) – heavenly creatures of the Sun. Chamrosh (Persian mythology) – body of a dog, head & wings of a bird. Cinnamon bird (Greek) – greek myth of an arabian bird that builds nests out of cinnamon. Devil Bird (Sri Lankan) – shrieks predicting death.
Elsa the lioness. Elsa the lioness (c. 28 January 1956 – 24 January 1961) was a female lion raised along with her sisters "Big One" and "Lustica" by game warden George Adamson and his wife Joy Adamson after they were orphaned at only a few days old. Though her two sisters eventually went to the Netherlands' Rotterdam Zoo, Elsa was trained by ...
Prince Chunk, a shorthair cat alleged to weigh forty-four pounds (two pounds short of the world record). Smokey, the holder of the Guinness World Record for "Loudest purr by a domestic cat". [56] Stewie, Guinness World Record holder for world's longest domestic cat from August 2010 until his death 4 February 2013.
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.
History of Animals (Greek: Τῶν περὶ τὰ ζῷα ἱστοριῶν, Ton peri ta zoia historion, "Inquiries on Animals"; Latin: Historia Animalium, "History of Animals") is one of the major texts on biology by the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, who had studied at Plato's Academy in Athens. It was written in the fourth century BC ...