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Not to mention the actual names. “There’s a bear. What should we call it?” “Well, it’s black. Let’s call it a Black Bear.” “How about that one? It’s brown.” “We’ll call it a Brown Bear.”
First two sound like Ubuntu releases.
Fun fact, the original word for bear has been lost because people refused to mention them directly - like Voldemort
All original words have been lost because language changes…
This isn’t really true though. Although many IE langauges don’t use a descendant of *h₂r̥ktos for taboo reasons, plenty of languages do, e.g. French ours, Albanian ari, Greek άρκτος, Welsh arth etc.
Ah but they’re not called bears, we just have to call them that or we upset the bear god who will end us if we say their real name.
Turdus is looking disgruntled.
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IIRC the “migratorius” part is only partially true, they migrate, but relatively short distances, so their year-round range is still pretty much the entire continental US.
They do gather into flocks in fall-winter and then split back into pairs in spring-summer, which is interesting.
I enjoy how “turd” rhymes with “bird”…
Turdus birdus
Turd turd turd turd is the word
And derp with Kurp.
turd migrating, thats what the robin genus sounds like.
Just that this “robin” isn’t one, it actually is a thrush. A robin would be Erithacus. They are both in different families even (and also look pretty different).
It’s so cool how scientists named ravens after the primarch of the Raven Guard in 40k 😌
Pica pica
Salvate invicem.
