"of Antioch (""circa"" 336), according to whom it was a fabulous animal ""haunting the banks of the Euphrates, very savage, hard to catch and having long, saw-like horns capable of cutting down trees"". It perhaps derives from Greek ""anthos"" (flower) and ""ops"" (eye), perhaps meaning ""beautiful eye"" or alluding to the animals' long eyelashes. This, however, may be a later folk etymology. The word ""talopus"" and ""calopus"", from Latin, came to be used in heraldry. In 1607, it was first used for living, cervine animals. The 91 species, most of which are native to Africa, occur in about 30 genera."
"""hind"", especially if three or more years old. The young of small species is a ""fawn"" and of large species a ""calf""; a very small young may be a ""kid"". A castrated male is a ""havier"". A group of any species is a ""herd"". The adjective of relation is """"; like the family name ""Cervidae"", this is from , meaning ""stag"" or ""deer"". Deer Deer (singular and plural) are the hoofed ruminant mammals forming the family Cervidae. The two main groups are the Cervinae, including the muntjac, the elk (wapiti), the fallow deer and the chital, and the Capreolinae, including"
"than one lineage. In domestic pigs, the cervix contains a series of five interdigitating pads that hold the boar's corkscrew-shaped penis during copulation. The word ""cervix"" () came to English from Latin, where it means ""neck"", and like its Germanic counterpart, it can refer not only to the neck [of the body] but also to an analogous narrowed part of an object. The cervix uteri (neck of the uterus) is thus the uterine cervix, but in English the word ""cervix"" used alone usually refers to it. Thus the adjective ""cervical"" may refer either to the neck (as in ""cervical vertebrae"""
"Sharvara Sharvara (Dog of Yama) (शर्वर) is an ancient Hindu mythical dog belonging to Yama. It is one of the two dogs that guard the netherworld. Sharvara is identified with the constellation Canis Major, the other dog with Canis Minor, together they guard the gates of the netherworld, known as pitriloka or vaivasvataloka, which is the domain of Yama. The word ""sharvara"" means variegated or spotted. In older Sanskrit, शर्वर is written as कर्वर (karvara). Sharvara can be compared with the Greek Cerberus, the mythological dog of the Greeks with similar characteristics. However, there is no description of Cerberus having"
"Cervidae (deer), Leporidae (hares), and Suidae (wild pigs), and certain species of the genus ""Capra"" (goats and ibex). In Southern Africa, the word venison refers to the meat of antelope. There are no native Cervidae in sub-Saharan Africa. Venison may be eaten as steaks, tenderloin, roasts, sausages, jerky and minced meat. It has a flavor reminiscent of beef, but is richer and can have a gamey note. Venison tends to have a finer texture and is leaner than comparable cuts of beef. However, like beef, leaner cuts can be tougher as well. Organ meats of deer are eaten, but would"
"Cervavitus Cervavitus is a genus of prehistoric deer that lived from the late Miocene (Vallesian age) to the Early Pleistocene (Villafranchian age) in parts of Western and Eastern Europe, Central Asia and China. It is characterized by having thorny antlers finished in two or three points, brachyodont teeth, molars with a primitive fold (known as the """"Palaeomeryx""' fold"") and complete lateral metacarpals on their feet, which would serve to move through slope areas. Due to its particular position in the systematics and phylogeny of deer, is considered to form part of the first branches of cervids more advanced than the"
"name: The Ancient Greek term for ermine, or other weasel-like species of animals, is ""galê"" () or ""galéē"" (). This would be in keeping with Leonardo's placement of a juniper bush behind the figure in his portrait of Ginevra de Benci in reference to her name. Given that Gallerani gave birth to a son acknowledged by Lodovico in May 1491, and the association of weasels and pregnancy in Italian Renaissance culture, it also is possible the animal was a symbol of Cecilia's pregnancy. In addition, it has been speculated that the animal in the painting may not be an ermine,"
"gave the name ""Cerberus"" to a genus of Asian snakes, which are commonly called ""dog-faced water snakes"" in English. Cerberus In Greek mythology, Cerberus (; ""Kerberos"" ), often called the ""hound of Hades"", is a multi-headed dog that guards the gates of the Underworld to prevent the dead from leaving. Cerberus was the offspring of the monsters Echidna and Typhon, and usually is described as having three heads, a serpent for a tail, and snakes protruding from parts of his body. Cerberus is primarily known for his capture by Heracles, one of Heracles' twelve labours. Descriptions of Cerberus vary, including"
"pets at that time. Vervet monkey The vervet monkey (""Chlorocebus pygerythrus""), or simply vervet, is an Old World monkey of the family Cercopithecidae native to Africa. The term ""vervet"" is also used to refer to all the members of the genus ""Chlorocebus"". The five distinct subspecies can be found mostly throughout Southern Africa, as well as some of the eastern countries. Vervets were introduced to Florida, St. Kitts, Ascension Island, and Cape Verde. These mostly herbivorous monkeys have black faces and grey body hair color, ranging in body length from about for males to about for females. In addition to"
"""Galea"". Caviinae Caviinae is a subfamily uniting all living members of the family Caviidae with the exception of the maras, capybaras, and ""Kerodon"". The subfamily traditionally contained the guinea pig or cavy-like forms along with the cursorially adapted (running) ""Kerodon"". Molecular results suggest the Caviinae as so defined would be paraphyletic and ""Kerodon"" is more closely related to maras and capybaras than to other caviines. This led Woods and Kilpatrick (2005) to unite ""Kerodon"" and capybaras into the subfamily Hydrochoerinae within the Caviidae. These studies also suggest ""Microcavia"" and ""Cavia"" are more closely related to one another than either is"
"According to Hesiod, Cerberus was the offspring of the monsters Echidna and Typhon, was fifty-headed, ate raw flesh, and was the ""brazen-voiced hound of Hades"", who fawns on those that enter the house of Hades, but eats those who try to leave. Stesichorus (c. 630 – 555 BC) apparently wrote a poem called ""Cerberus"", of which virtually nothing remains. However the early-sixth-century BC-lost Corinthian cup from Argos, which showed a single head, and snakes growing out from many places on his body, was possibly influenced by Stesichorus' poem. The mid-sixth-century BC cup from Laconia gives Cerberus three heads and a"
"found in a preliminary survey of Serbian usage that the most commonly used ""animal vocatives"" were, in order, 1. pig, 2. chick(en), 3. dog/puppy, 4. cow, 5. monkey, 6. hen, 7. rat, 8. turkey, 9. mouse, 10. snake, 11. cat/kitten, 12. fox, 13. lamb, 14. vixen, 15. worm. Of these, using the classification devised by Sabina Halupka-Resetar, and Biljana Radic, lamb was always used positively; cow and vixen referred to a person's appearance; pig indicated a person's eating habits; calling someone a fox or a turkey related to their intelligence, or lack of it; and names like cat, snake, worm,"
"for Virgil—contradicting Hesiod—Cerberus guarded the underworld against entrance. Later Virgil describes Cerberus, in his bloody cave, crouching over half-gnawed bones. In his ""Georgics"", Virgil refers to Cerberus, his ""triple jaws agape"" being tamed by Orpheus' playing his lyre. Horace (65 – 8 BC) also refers to Cerberus yielding to Orphesus' lyre, here Cerberus has a single dog head, which ""like a Fury's is fortified by a hundred snakes"", with a ""triple-tongued mouth"" oozing ""fetid breath and gore"". Ovid (43 BC – AD 17/18) has Cerberus' mouth produce venom, and like Euphorion, makes Cerberus the cause of the poisonous plant aconite."
"be moved back to ""Cervus"", or placed in its own genus, ""Panolia"" . ""Rucervus"" is an ancient cervid lineage that--together with the genus ""Axis""--represents the oldest evolutionary radiation of the subfamily Cervinae (plesiometacarpal deer) . The fossil species of ""Rucervus"" of Europe were included in the genus ""Arvernoceros"" Heintz, 1971 (the type species: ""Cervus ardei"" Croizet & Jobert, 1828) or in the genus ""Eucladoceros"", as in the case of ""R. giulii"". Today, ""Arvernoceros"" is regarded as a subgenus of ""Rucervus"" . The European fossil forms of ""Rucervus"" are distinguished from the South Asian species by more compact crown part of"
"was comparable in size to the modern elk. † ""Megaloceros"" (Pliocene–Pleistocene) featured the Irish elk (""M. giganteus""), one of the largest known cervids. The Irish elk reached at the shoulder and had heavy antlers that spanned from tip to tip. These large animals are thought to have faced extinction due to conflict between sexual selection for large antlers and body and natural selection for a smaller form. Meanwhile, the moose and reindeer radiated into North America from Siberia. Deer constitute the artiodactyl family Cervidae. This family was first described by German zoologist Georg August Goldfuss in ""Handbuch der Zoologie"" (1820)."
"the genus ""Corvus"", derived from the Latin word for ""raven"". The specific epithet, ""corax""/κοραξ, is the Ancient Greek word for ""raven"" or ""crow"". The modern English word ""raven"" has cognates in all other Germanic languages, including Old Norse (and subsequently modern Icelandic) ""hrafn"" and Old High German ""(h)raban"", all which descend from Proto-Germanic ""*khrabanas"". An old Scottish word ""corby"" or ""corbie"", akin to the French ""corbeau"", has been used for both this bird and the carrion crow. Obsolete collective nouns for a group of ravens (or at least the common raven) include ""unkindness"" and ""conspiracy"". In practice, most English-speakers use"
"a similarity between Cerberus and the Norse mythological dog Garmr, relating both names to a Proto-Indo-European root ""*ger-"" ""to growl"" (perhaps with the suffixes ""-*m/*b"" and ""-*r""). However, as Ogden observes, this analysis actually requires ""Kerberos"" and ""Garmr"" to be derived from two ""different"" Indo-European roots (*""ker-"" and *""gher-"" respectively), and so does not actually establish a relationship between the two names. Though probably not Greek, Greek etymologies for Cerberus have been offered. An etymology given by Servius (the late-fourth-century commentator on Virgil)—but rejected by Ogden—derives Cerberus from the Greek word ""creoboros"" meaning ""flesh-devouring"". Another suggested etymology derives Cerberus from"
"Eurystheus. The geographer Pausanias (who preserves for us Hecataeus' version of the story) points out that, since Homer does not describe Cerberus, Hecataeus' account does not necessarily conflict with Homer, since Homer's ""Hound of Hades"" may not in fact refer to an actual dog. Other rationalized accounts make Cerberus out to be a normal dog. According to Palaephatus (4th century BC) Cerberus was one of the two dogs who guarded the cattle of Geryon, the other being Orthrus. Geryon lived in a city named Tricranium (in Greek ""Tricarenia,"" ""Three-Heads""), from which name both Cerberus and Geryon came to be called"
"Bicorn and Chichevache Bicorn and Chichevache are fabulous beasts that appear in European satirical works of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Bicorn is a creature—often described as a part-panther, part-cow creature with a human-like face—that devours kind-hearted and devoted husbands and (because of their abundance) is plump and well fed. Chichevache, on the other hand, devours obedient wives and (because of their scarcity) is thin and starving. Geoffrey Chaucer mentions Chichevache in the envoy of the Clerk's Tale in his ""Canterbury Tales"": Chaucer may have borrowed the French term ""chichifache"" (""thin face"") and put it with ""vache"" (""cow"") to make"
"Ovis Ovis is a genus of mammals, part of the goat-antelope subfamily of the ruminant family Bovidae. Its five or more highly sociable species are known as sheep. The domestic sheep is one member of the genus, and is thought to be descended from the wild mouflon of central and southwest Asia. Female sheep are called ""ewes"", males are called ""rams"" (sometimes also called ""bucks"" or ""tups""), and young sheep are called ""lambs"". The adjective applying to sheep is ""ovine"", and the collective term for sheep is ""flock"" or ""mob"". The term ""herd"" is also occasionally used in this sense."
"And after the early third century BC, the subject become rare everywhere, until the Roman period. In Roman art, the capture of Cerberus is usually shown together with other labors. Heracles and Cerberus are usually alone, with Heracles leading Cerberus. The etymology of Cerberus' name is uncertain. Ogden refers to attempts to establish an Indo-European etymology as ""not yet successful"". It has been claimed to be related to the Sanskrit word सर्वरा ""sarvarā"", used as an epithet of one of the dogs of Yama, from a Proto-Indo-European word *""k̑érberos"", meaning ""spotted"". Lincoln (1991), among others, critiques this etymology. Lincoln notes"
"means ""dog"", as well as (less transparently) English ""hound"". The tribe Canini (Fischer de Waldheim, 1817) is the sister group to the true foxes (""Vulpes""), and is represented today by two sub-tribes: Canina, which includes the genus ""Canis"" (wolves, jackals, the coyote, and the domestic dog), as well as the dhole and the African wild dog; and Cerdocyonina, which includes the so-called foxes of South America. The critical features that mark the Canini as a monophyletic group include: the consistent enlargement of the frontal sinus, often accompanied by the correlated loss of the depression in the dorsal surface of the"
"from the Latin word ""antalopus"" (""horned animal""). The specific name ""cervicapra"" is composed of the Latin words ""cervus"" (""deer"") and ""capra"" (""she-goat""). The vernacular name ""blackbuck"" is a reference to the dark brown to black colour of the dorsal (upper) part of the coat of the male. The earliest recorded use of this name dates back to 1850. Alternative names for the blackbuck are ""Indian antelope"", ""kadiyal"", ""kala hiran"", ""krishna mriga(in Kannada)"" and ""krishnasaar"" (in Hindi); ""kalvit"" (in Marathi); ""krishna jinka"" (in Telugu); and ""iralai maan"" (in Tamil). The blackbuck is the sole living member of the genus ""Antilope"" and"
"Corvin The name Corvin comes from the Latin name Corvinus which derives from the Latin word corvus meaning raven, although the word today refers to the birds' genus including ravens and crows among others. Corvin most commonly is a surname, but it and its variations are being used as a given name as well. As a surname it can refer to: and others. As a given name its most common variations are Corvan, Korvin and Korwin and their English equivalent Raven. There is also a Corvin River. Hundreds of streets, schools, museums, hotels, etc. are named after King Matthias Corvinus"
"the arrondissement of Céret. The derivation of the name has nothing to do with the dog Cerberus (""Cerbère"" in French), guardian of Hell in Greek mythology, even if Cape Cerbère could appear as a guard post at the entry to Spain. In any case, numerous other localities have the same name, especially in Spain, and their geographic position would not suggest such a derivation. An alternative suggestion is a place frequented by stags (French: ""cerfs""), an equally unlikely hypothesis. Given the antiquity of the name, it must be assumed to be a pre-Latin name, and to come from the pre-Indo-European"
"Deer Deer (singular and plural) are the hoofed ruminant mammals forming the family Cervidae. The two main groups are the Cervinae, including the muntjac, the elk (wapiti), the fallow deer and the chital, and the Capreolinae, including the reindeer (caribou), the roe deer and the moose. Female reindeer, and male deer of all species except the Chinese water deer, grow and shed new antlers each year. In this they differ from permanently horned antelope, which are part of a different family (Bovidae) within the same order of even-toed ungulates (Artiodactyla). The musk deer of Asia and water chevrotain of tropical"
"Cerrophidion Cerrophidion is a genus of venomous pitvipers which are endemic to southern Mexico, Central America, and western Panama. The generic name, ""Cerrophidion"", is derived from the Spanish word ""cerro"", which means ""mountain"", and the Greek word ""ophidion"", which means ""small snake"". Two species are currently recognized, but no subspecies. These snakes grow to a maximum total length of (for ""C. godmani""), but usually do not exceed . The head scalation is highly variable, with some scales being enlarged, especially in the frontal region. The fact that the prelacunal is not fused with any of the supralabial scales is characteristic"
"Antifer Antifer is an extinct genus of large herbivorous deer of the family Cervidae, endemic to South America during the Pleistocene, living from 2.6 Ma-13,000 years ago and existing for approximately . Cervids first entered the formerly isolated continent of South America during the Pliocene as part of the Great American Biotic Interchange. It would have been preyed upon by the dire wolf, the fox-like ""Theriodictis"" and finally by humans. ""Antifer"" was named by Ameghino (1889) based on Captain Antifer in a Jules Vernes novel describing his voyage of discovery in the southern hemisphere. It was assigned to Cervidae by"
"Cerberus In Greek mythology, Cerberus (; ""Kerberos"" ), often called the ""hound of Hades"", is a multi-headed dog that guards the gates of the Underworld to prevent the dead from leaving. Cerberus was the offspring of the monsters Echidna and Typhon, and usually is described as having three heads, a serpent for a tail, and snakes protruding from parts of his body. Cerberus is primarily known for his capture by Heracles, one of Heracles' twelve labours. Descriptions of Cerberus vary, including the number of his heads. Cerberus was usually three-headed, though not always. Cerberus had several multi-headed relatives. His father"
"Wolverine The wolverine () (also spelled wolverene), ""Gulo gulo"" (""Gulo"" is Latin for ""glutton""), also referred to as the glutton, carcajou, skunk bear, or quickhatch, is the largest land-dwelling species of the family Mustelidae. It is a stocky and muscular carnivore, more closely resembling a small bear than other mustelids. A solitary animal, it has a reputation for ferocity and strength out of proportion to its size, with the documented ability to kill prey many times larger than itself. The wolverine is found primarily in remote reaches of the Northern boreal forests and subarctic and alpine tundra of the Northern"
"and 36 species, while Cervinae comprises 10 genera and 55 species. Hydropotinae consists of a single species, the water deer (""H. inermis""); however, a 1998 study placed it under Capreolinae. The following list is based on molecular and phylogenetic studies by zoologists such as Groves and Grubb. The following is the classification of the extinct cervids with known fossil record: Deer were an important source of food for early hominids. In China, ""Homo erectus"" fed upon the sika deer, while the red deer was hunted in Germany. In the Upper Palaeolithic, the reindeer was the staple food for Cro-Magnon people,"
"Civet A civet is a small, lithe-bodied, mostly nocturnal mammal native to tropical Asia and Africa, especially the tropical forests. The term civet applies to over a dozen different mammal species. Most of the species diversity is found in southeast Asia. The best-known civet species is the African civet, ""Civettictis civetta"", which historically has been the main species from which was obtained a musky scent used in perfumery. The word ""civet"" may also refer to the distinctive musky scent produced by the animals. A minority of writers use ""civet"" to refer only to ""Civettictis"", ""Viverra"" and ""Viverricula"" civets. But in"
"Cervus Cervus is a genus of deer that primarily are native to Eurasia, although one species occurs in northern Africa and another in North America. In addition to the species presently placed in this genus, it has included a whole range of other species now commonly placed in other genera, but some of these should perhaps be returned to ""Cervus"". Additionally, the species-level taxonomy is in a state of flux. Until the 1970s, ""Cervus"" also included the members of the genera ""Axis"", ""Dama"", ""Elaphurus"" and ""Hyelaphus"", and until the late 1980s, it included members of ""Przewalskium"", ""Rucervus"" and ""Rusa"". With"