"European badger The European badger (""Meles meles"") also known as the Eurasian badger or simply badger""', is a species of badger in the family Mustelidae and is native to almost all of Europe and some parts of West Asia. Several subspecies are recognized; the nominate subspecies (""Meles meles meles"") predominates over most of Europe. The European badger is classified as being of least concern by the IUCN as it has a wide range and a large population size which is stable, and even increasing in some areas. The European badger is a powerfully built black, white, brown and grey animal"
"They recommended the adoption of the former of these names, but with the orthography Korril. However this recommendation was not prescriptive, and it remains to be seen to what extent it will be adopted. Fawn-footed mosaic-tailed rat The fawn-footed mosaic-tailed rat, or fawn-footed melomys (""Melomys cervinipes"") is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found only in Australia. This species has long been commonly known by the descriptive English common name fawn-footed melomys, but during the 1990s there was a push for such names to be replaced with indigenous Australian names. Accordingly, in 1995 the Australian Nature"
"4; the figures are lower in other parts of the world. Melioidosis is a recognised disease in animals, including cats, goats, sheep, and horses. Cattle, water buffalo, and crocodiles are considered to be relatively resistant to melioidosis despite their constant exposure to mud. An outbreak at the Paris Zoo in the 1970s (""""L’affaire du jardin des plantes"""") was thought to have originated from an imported panda. ""B. pseudomallei"" is normally found in soil and surface water; a history of contact with soil or surface water is, therefore, almost invariable in patients with melioidosis; that said, the majority of patients who"
"Maltese dog The Maltese (), ""Canis familiaris Maelitacus"", is a small breed of dog in the Toy Group. It descends from dogs originating in the Central Mediterranean Area. The breed name and origins are generally understood to derive from the Mediterranean island nation of Malta. This ancient breed has been known by a variety of names throughout the centuries. It has also been known in English as the ""ancient dog of Malta,"" the ""Roman Ladies' Dog,"" the ""Maltese Lion Dog,"" and ""Melita"" (the former name of Malta). The origin of the common name ""Cokie"" is unknown, but is believed to"
"name ""melanocephala"" is derived from the Ancient Greek words ""melas"" ""black"", and ""kephale"" ""head"", referring to its black crown. Other common names include Mickey miner and soldierbird. Four subspecies are recognised, including subspecies ""leachi"" found in eastern Tasmania. The mainland population was split into three subspecies in 1999 by Richard Schodde—""titaniota"" from Cape York Peninsula in Queensland as far south as Mareeba, ""lepidota"" from central Queensland and inland New South Wales west of Nyngan, and the nominate subspecies ""melanocephala"" from southeastern New South Wales, Victoria, and southern South Australia. There are broad zones where birds are intermediate between subspecies. Further"
"Fawn-footed mosaic-tailed rat The fawn-footed mosaic-tailed rat, or fawn-footed melomys (""Melomys cervinipes"") is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found only in Australia. This species has long been commonly known by the descriptive English common name fawn-footed melomys, but during the 1990s there was a push for such names to be replaced with indigenous Australian names. Accordingly, in 1995 the Australian Nature Conservation Agency published recommendations for the common names of rodents. They compiled two indigenous Australian names for this species: ""Corrill"", recorded from Stradbroke Island; and ""Cunduoo"", recorded from the vicinity of the Richmond River."
"Brocéliande. The name ""Merlin"" is derived from the Welsh ""Myrddin"", the name of the bard who was one of the chief sources for the later legendary figure. Geoffrey of Monmouth Latinised the name to Merlinus in his works. Medievalist Gaston Paris suggests that Geoffrey chose the form ""Merlinus"" rather than the regular ""Merdinus"" to avoid a resemblance to the Anglo-Norman word ""merde"" (from Latin ""merda"") for feces. Clas Myrddin or ""Merlin's Enclosure"" is an early name for Great Britain stated in the Third Series of Welsh Triads. Celticist A. O. H. Jarman suggests that the Welsh name """" () was"
"""clawed warrior"" are incorrect. The genus was named by Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger in 1811, deriving from the Greek word ""μηρος"" (femur). Combined with 'unguiculate', meaning to have claws or nails in Latin, the name can be loosely translated as 'clawed femur'. Gerbils only became popular pets after 1954, when 20 breeding pairs were brought to the United States from eastern Mongolia for scientific testing. Almost all pet gerbils today are descended from these 40. Gerbils were brought to the United Kingdom in 1964 from the United States. The Mongolian gerbil has become an important research animal for several reasons."
"to species such as hornwrack, sea squirts and conger eels. The island is part of a set of three spread out along the north coast of Anglesey. The other two islands are Ynys Amlwch and Ynys Badrig. The Welsh name ""Maen y Bugail"" translates into English as ""The Shepherd's Stone"". This comes from a folklore tale in which a shepherd who was looking for his sheep was annoyed by a stone in his shoe. He took the stone out and threw it into the sea, the island arising at the place in which it landed. West Mouse West Mouse (Welsh:"
"slow-moving and sedentary, moose can become aggressive and move quickly if angered or startled. Their mating season in the autumn features energetic fights between males competing for a female. ""Alces alces"" is called a ""moose"" in North American English, but an ""elk"" in British English; its scientific name comes from its name in Latin. The word ""elk"" in North American English refers to a completely different species of deer, the ""Cervus canadensis"", also called the wapiti. A mature male moose is called a bull, a mature female a cow, and an immature moose of either sex a calf. The word"
"are found in central and northern Wales. Fallow deer are found in rural and semiurban areas of Wales. The European polecat (""Mustela putorius"") can be found in both urban and country environments. Found in the same area is the red fox, one of the most common mammals in Wales. The red deer, one of five native deer species, is the biggest non-marine mammal in Wales. Fallow, muntjac roe and sika deer can also be found. Polecats and pine martens are very rarely seen. Other mammals include badgers, foxes, hares, hedgehogs, otters, rabbits, stoats, weasels, red squirrels, and 13 species of"
"Britain and their Eggs"", published 1789 in London. In medieval Europe, merlins were popular in falconry: the Book of St. Albans listed it as ""the falcon for a lady"", where it was noted for classic ""ringing"" (circling rapidly upward) pursuits of the English skylark. Though the merlin is only slightly larger than the American kestrel in dimensions, it averages about one third to one half larger by weight, with this weight mostly being extra muscle that gives it greater speed and endurance than the kestrel. Like the American kestrel, the merlin offers the modern falconer the ability to hunt year"
"have the tag 'Possibly Extinct' added to the IUCN Red listing."" Bramble Cay melomys The Bramble Cay melomys, or Bramble Cay mosaic-tailed rat (""Melomys rubicola""), is an extinct species of rodent in the family Muridae and subfamily Murinae. It was similar to the Cape York melomys except that it had some protein differences and a coarser tail caused by elevated scales. It was prominent in herd-fields and strandline vegetation where it built burrows. Australia's most isolated mammal, the Bramble Cay melomys was known only from a small population in Bramble Cay, a vegetated coral cay of . It has not"
"bellicosus Anglicus, a Mastif"". Literally, ""Molossus, warlike English dog, a Mastiff"", and perhaps the first conflation of the breeds Molossus and Mastiff. When in 1415 Sir Peers Legh was wounded in the Battle of Agincourt, his Mastiff stood over and protected him for many hours through the battle. The Mastiff was later returned to Legh's home and was the foundation of the Lyme Hall Mastiffs. Five centuries later this pedigree figured prominently in founding the modern breed. Other aristocratic seats where Mastiffs are known to have been kept are Elvaston Castle (Charles Stanhope, 4th Earl of Harrington and his ancestors)"
"in contact with glanders-infected animals or live in areas where melioidosis is endemic. Glanders Glanders (from Middle English ' or Old French ', both meaning glands; , ; also known as ""equinia"", ""farcy"", and ""malleus"") is an infectious disease that occurs primarily in horses, mules, and donkeys. It can be contracted by other animals, such as dogs, cats, goats and humans. It is caused by infection with the bacterium ""Burkholderia mallei"", usually by ingestion of contaminated feed or water. Signs of glanders include the formation of nodular lesions in the lungs and ulceration of the mucous membranes in the upper"
"Bramble Cay melomys The Bramble Cay melomys, or Bramble Cay mosaic-tailed rat (""Melomys rubicola""), is an extinct species of rodent in the family Muridae and subfamily Murinae. It was similar to the Cape York melomys except that it had some protein differences and a coarser tail caused by elevated scales. It was prominent in herd-fields and strandline vegetation where it built burrows. Australia's most isolated mammal, the Bramble Cay melomys was known only from a small population in Bramble Cay, a vegetated coral cay of . It has not been seen since 2007, despite a search by a team of"
"Hazel dormouse The hazel dormouse or common dormouse (""Muscardinus avellanarius"") is a small mammal and the only living species in the genus Muscardinus. The hazel dormouse is native to northern Europe and Asia Minor. It is the only dormouse native to the British Isles, and is therefore often referred to simply as the ""dormouse"" in British sources, although the edible dormouse, ""Glis glis"", has been accidentally introduced and now has an established population. Though Ireland has no native dormouse, the hazel dormouse has recently been found in County Kildare, and appears to be spreading rapidly, helped by the prevalence of"
"name ""tinnunculus"" is Latin for ""kestrel"" from ""tinnulus"", ""shrill"". Common kestrel The common kestrel (""Falco tinnunculus"") is a bird of prey species belonging to the kestrel group of the falcon family Falconidae. It is also known as the European kestrel, Eurasian kestrel, or Old World kestrel. In Britain, where no other kestrel species occurs, it is generally just called ""the kestrel"". This species occurs over a large range. It is widespread in Europe, Asia, and Africa, as well as occasionally reaching the east coast of North America. It has colonized a few oceanic islands, but vagrant individuals are generally rare;"
"in the well-known illustrated German book ""Max and Moritz"" dating from 1865. Jim Dixon, in Kingsley Amis's comic novel ""Lucky Jim"" (1954), repeatedly calls his department head, Professor Welch, an ""old cockchafer."" The Italian, specifically Neapolitan, collection of stories ""Il Pentamerone"" of Giambattista Basile (in its English translation by Norman M. Penzer from Benedetto Croce's Italian) contains a tale on Day 3, Night 5: ""The Cockchafer, Mouse and Grasshopper"". There have been four Royal Navy ships named HMS ""Cockchafer"". Cockchafer The cockchafer, colloquially called May bug or doodlebug, is a European beetle of the genus ""Melolontha"", in the family Scarabaeidae."
"form of the least weasel (""Mustela nivalis""). This usage is retained in British English, where the name is also extended to cover several other small species of the genus. However, in technical discourse and in American usage, the term ""weasel"" can refer to any member of the genus, or to the genus as a whole. Of the 17 extant species currently classified in the genus ""Mustela"", 10 have ""weasel"" in their common names. Among those that do not are the stoat, the polecats, the ferret, and the European mink. The American mink and the extinct sea mink were commonly included"
"Mediterranean gull The Mediterranean gull (""Ichthyaetus melanocephalus"") is a small gull. The scientific name is from Ancient Greek. The genus ""Ichthyaetus"" is from ""ikhthus"", ""fish"", and ""aetos"", ""eagle"", and the specific ""melanocephalus"" is from ""melas"", ""black"", and ""-kephalos"" ""-headed"". This gull breeds almost entirely in the Western Palearctic, mainly in the south east, especially around the Black Sea, and in central Turkey. There are colonies elsewhere in southern Europe, and this species has undergone a dramatic range expansion in recent decades. As is the case with many gulls, it has traditionally been placed in the genus ""Larus"". The Mediterranean gull"
"along with the caracal and the African golden cat, forms one of the eight lineages of Felidae. According to a 2006 genetic study, the ""Caracal"" lineage came into existence 8.5 mya, and the ancestor of this lineage arrived in Africa 8.5–5.6 mya. The phylogenetic relationships of the serval are as follows: The name ""Leptailurus"" may have been constructed from the medieval Greek λεπταλέος or λεπτός meaning ""fine, delicate"". The name ""serval"" could have been derived from the Medieval Latin words ""Lupus cervalis"" (""deer-like wolf"") or from its Portuguese equivalent ""lobo-cerval"" (referring to the Iberian lynx). The first recorded use of"
"Melo melo Melo melo, common name the Indian volute or bailer shell, is a very large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Volutidae, the volutes. The distribution of this species is restricted to Southeast Asia, from Burma, Thailand and Malaysia, to the South China Sea and the Philippines. This large sea snail is known to live in littoral and shallow sublittoral zones. It usually dwells in muddy bottoms at a maximum depth of nearly 20 m. ""Melo melo"" is known to be carnivorous, as laboratory experiments have shown. It is a specialized predator of other continental shelf"
"old to represent any of the modern seaduck genera, but apparently these were all well-distinct even back then. Subfossils from this species was also found in England indicate that the living species was extant a few hundred years ago. Smew The smew (""Mergellus albellus"") is a species of duck, and is the only living member of the genus Mergellus. ""Mergellus"" is a diminutive of ""Mergus"" and ""albellus"" is from Latin ""albus"" ""white"". This genus is closely related to ""Mergus"" and is sometimes included in it, though it might be closer to the goldeneyes (""Bucephala""). The smew has hybridized with the"
"an abundance of rabbits, hares, hedgehogs, shrews, moles and several species of bat. Carnivorous mammals include the fox, badger, otter, weasel, stoat and elusive wildcat. Various species of seal, whale and dolphin are found on or around British shores and coastlines. The largest land-based wild animals today are deer. The red deer is the largest species, with roe deer and fallow deer also prominent; the latter was introduced by the Normans. Sika deer and two more species of smaller deer, muntjac and Chinese water deer, have been introduced, muntjac becoming widespread in England and parts of Wales while Chinese water"
"word being itself derived from Vulgar Latin ""*ma(n)suetinus"" ""tame"", see Classical Latin ""mansuetus"" with same meaning. The first list of dog breed names in the English language, contained within ""The Book of Saint Albans"", published in 1465, includes """"Mastiff """". This work is attributed to Prioress Juliana Berners, but in part may be translated from the early 14th century Norman-French work ""Le Art de Venerie"", by Edward II's Huntmaster Guillaume Twici. The naturalist Christopher Merret in his 1666 work ""Pinax Rerum Naturalium Brittanicarum"" has a list of British mammals, including 15 kinds of dog, one of which is ""Molossus, Canis"
"originally assigned—in July 2010—the English name of the biblical monster, Leviathan, to the whale as ""Leviathan melvillei"". However, the scientific name ""Leviathan"" was also the junior synonym for the mastodon (""Mammut""), so, in August 2010, the authors rectified this situation by coining a new genus name for the whale, ""Livyatan"", from the original Hebrew name of the monster. The species name ""melvillei"" is a reference to Herman Melville, author of the book ""Moby-Dick"", which features a gigantic sperm whale as the main antagonist. The first ""Livyatan"" fossils from Peru were dated to around 13-12 million years ago (mya) in the"
"the adventures of Curious George have been translated in many languages. The character has spawned books in many languages, two television series, two stop-motion animated shorts, an animated film, ""Curious George"", featuring Will Ferrell, a video game and he has been linked with numerous products and companies. Pet monkey A pet monkey is a monkey kept as a pet. Monkeys have often been favorite pets of queens such as Catherine de' Medici and Henrietta Maria, wife of Charles I. When the British first began to explore Africa, young monkeys were often captured and taken back on board the ship to"
"reserve, including wigeon, gadwall and teal, and easterly winds can bring in passage migrants, sometimes in large numbers. These may include uncommon species such as bluethroats, wrynecks and dotterels. Minsmere's east-coast location and range of habitats make it a major site for rare species. Notable recent occurrences include Great Britain's first western swamphen in 2016, a black-browed albatross in 2015, pallid harrier and collared pratincole in 2014, and Audouin's gull and red-flanked bluetail in 2011. Mammals found at Minsmere include a herd of about 300 red deer, otters, badgers and water voles, the last being protected by active control of"
"meriana"" and a split-banded owlet butterfly ""Opsiphanes cassina merianae"". The Cuban sphinx moth has been named ""Erinnyis merianae"". A bug with no common name has been named ""Plisthenes merianae"". A genus of mantises has been named ""Sibylla"". The bird-eating spider ""Avicularia merianae"" was named in her honour, referencing her research on spiders. The spider ""Metellina merianae"" was named after her in 2017. The Argentine black-and-white tegu lizard has been named ""Salvator merianae"". The cane toad was named ""Rhinella merianae"". A snail with no common name was named ""Coquandiella meriana"". The Madagascan African stonechat bird was given the name ""Saxicola torquatus"
"significant geographical variation. The sexes are alike in appearance. Hybridisation with both reed warbler and Blyth's reed warbler has been occasionally recorded. The genus name ""Acrocephalus"" is from Ancient Greek ""akros"", ""highest"", and ""kephale"", ""head"". It is possible that Naumann and Naumann thought ""akros"" meant ""sharp-pointed"". The specific ""palustris"" is from Latin and means ""marshy"". The marsh warbler breeds in the middle latitudes of Europe and western Asia, from the English Channel to about 70 degrees east. It mainly occupies areas with a continental climate, but breeds, or has bred, in Britain and northern France as well. it is principally"
"- mouse (""M. musculus"") ""Eimeria flavescens"" - rabbit (""O. cuniculus"") ""Eimeria gallatii"" - red-backed vole (""C. gapperi"") ""Eimeria granulosa"" - goat (""C. hircus"") ""Eimeria hirci"" - goat (""C. hircus"") ""Eimeria intestinalis"" - rabbit (""O. cuniculus"") ""Eimeria irresidua"" - rabbit (""O. cuniculus"") ""Eimeria intricata"" - goat (""C. hircus"") ""Eimeria jolchijevi"" - goat (""C. hircus"") ""Eimeria krijgsmanni"" - mouse (""M. musculus"") ""Eimeria larimerensis"" - Uinta ground squirrel (""Spermophilus armatus"") ""Eimeria macusaniensis"" - llamas (""Lama glama""), guanacos (""Lama guanicoe""), alpacas (""Vicugna pacos""), vicunas (""Vicugna vicugna"") ""Eimeria magna"" - rabbit (""O. cuniculus"") ""Eimeria marconii"" - red-backed vole (""Clethrionomys gapperi"") ""Eimeria media"" - rabbit (""O."
"marsupials, such as opossums, than they are to placental mammals, such as golden or Talpidae moles. Class Mammalia Moles' pelts have a velvety texture not found in surface animals. Surface-dwelling animals tend to have longer fur with a natural tendency for the nap to lie in a particular direction, but to facilitate their burrowing lifestyle, mole pelts are short and very dense and have no particular direction to the nap. This makes it easy for moles to move backwards underground, as their fur is not ""brushed the wrong way"". The leather is extremely soft and supple. Queen Alexandra, the wife"