What do you call a group of giraffes, a female donkey, or a baby alligator? Learn the names of animal groups as well as babies, males, and females. Some might surprise you or even give you a giggle.
If you really can’t think of a name that goes well, or if you are stuck between a few names, take a paper plate and write some names on it, spacing them out well. Next to each name, place different foods: a piece of cheese, hamster food from the pet shop, maybe a cracker and...
Fishes show a great diversity of gonadal development and differentiation that can be classified into five categories: (i) gonochoristic species with individuals developing either testes or ovaries, (ii) sequential hermaphrodites that mature as males (protandrous) or (iii) as females (protogynous...
Conventionally, “grue” refers to the collection of colors that can be described in English by either blue or green. The genders lexicalize similar categories, but may have different preferred names for the category. This could be caused by native color-word synonyms (language 103), or ...
I do realize that makes me a very strange little Portuguese girl, (wink, nudge) but I really didn’t need a Portuguese female character to be interested. Though I did sometimes wonder why everyone in the future would have English names. (Look, I was very young. I later found some Frenc...
On the other hand: if you ask someone to guess the intensity of a hurricane based onnothing other than a name, maybe it’s true that people will guess Hurricane “Snidely Whiplash” is fiercer than Hurricane “Nell”. Heck, if we gave them dog names, I’d probably guess Hurricane “...