Talk:List of animal names
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editHuman young
editI see the following listed among the young of humans: baby, boy (male), child, girl (female), and infant. I was always under the impression that kid was another of the accepted terms for human young. Is this a misconception? Is there a reason why kid is not listed? allixpeeke (talk) 04:21, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
- Though widely used, "kid" is still a slang term for a human child, not a scientific one. This being an encyclopedia, we do not intermix scientific and slang terms in our articles. General Ization Talk 04:24, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
Vultures
editThere are three different collective nouns for vultures (kettle, committee, and wake) listed on the wiki page for vultures (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulture), including a footnote for the source ([6] Hamilton, S.L. (2014). "Sky Burials").
I am sure the source is correct, but I cannot provide a second source. I had encountered those collective nouns elsewhere, but I forget where other than it was a website about word usage.
I am too inexperienced with wiki editing to know how to add a new line to the matrix for vultures. Rendel B. Moshe (talk) 22:58, 14 April 2024 (UTC)
Call
editAn idea for another column would be for animals' calls or cries e.g. "donkey" "braying". 93.195.235.128 (talk) 13:41, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
- See this article: List of animal sounds. That might be what you're looking for. GoldRomean (talk) 00:25, 27 June 2024 (UTC)
- I feel like it wouldn't be appropriate for this article, because "braying" isn't really a name for a donkey. It's a good idea, though, and that's why that article exists. GoldRomean (talk) 00:26, 27 June 2024 (UTC)
Completeness
editI don't fully understand the intention of this (List) article, given the nature of it's gross incompleteness. I can't imagine how such a very large and diverse collection of animal terms could ever be, or want to be, maintained as a wiki page. N.B. Approximately 8.7 million species of animals on the planet. SquashEngineer (talk) 14:42, 17 August 2024 (UTC)