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Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Funk, Holger, "How the ancient krokottas evolved into the modern spotted hyena crocuta crocuta", Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica, 130/2 (2012), 145-166.
- Resum
- The names which today are used as systematic zoological designations for the striped hyena (Hyaena hyaena) and the spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta) are documented by their oldest Greek describers Herodotus, Ctesias and Aristotle. Hyaena is the Latinized form of and etymologically goes back to, the Greek term for pig or hog., in turn, is the feminine form of the masculine. Thus, originally meant a "hogess". But how about the second hyena, the Crocuta? This designation is the Latinized form of the Greek, a variant of the more common name about whose meaning some erroneous opinions and speculations have been spread, but whose origin and transformation never have been systematically examined. The goal of this paper is to provide such an examination in order to clarify prevailing misconceptions.
- Matèries
- Història natural - Animals
Lexicografia
- URL
- https://www.researchgate.net/publication/289474851_ ...
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