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Support for this etymology can be found in the alternative Germanic word for penguin, fettgans or 'fat-goose', and the related Dutch word vetgans. Adult male penguins are sometimes called cocks, females sometimes called hens; a group of penguins on land is a waddle, and a group of penguins in the water is a raft.
From qalipu ("snow shoveler"), referring to its habit of pawing through the snow for food, via French. Known as reindeer outside North America. [47] Cashew (Anacardium occidentale) cashew: Tupi: From acajú ("nut that produces itself"), via Portuguese [48] [49]
This list of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names is intended to help those unfamiliar with classical languages to understand and remember the scientific names of organisms. The binomial nomenclature used for animals and plants is largely derived from Latin and Greek words, as are some of the names used for higher taxa , such ...
An alternative etymology links the word to Latin pinguis, which means "fat". In Dutch, the alternative word for penguin is "fat-goose" (vetgans see: Dutch wiki or dictionaries under Pinguïn), and would indicate this bird received its name from its appearance. Mither
This list contains Germanic elements of the English language which have a close corresponding Latinate form. The correspondence is semantic—in most cases these words are not cognates, but in some cases they are doublets, i.e., ultimately derived from the same root, generally Proto-Indo-European, as in cow and beef, both ultimately from PIE *gʷōus.
Some genetic analysis has shown that the Spheniscidae family, which present penguins belong to, evolved from flightless birds that lived 40-100 million years ago. Other scientists believe their ...
Video shot at SEA LIFE Melbourne where the penguin lives shows the 46 lbs. baby gearing up for his meal. Pesto is less than a year old but already towers over all the other penguins in the enclosure.
Seals typically swallow their food whole, and will rip apart prey that is too big. [97] [98] The leopard seal, a prolific predator of penguins, is known to violently shake its prey to death. [99] Complex serrations in the teeth of filter-feeding species, such as crabeater seals, allow water to leak out as they swallow their planktonic food. [85]