TIL that Eurasian brown bear (Ursus arctos arctos) is the bearest of all bears – "ursus" means bear, and "arctos" also means bear, so the scientific name translates to "Bear bear bear"

individual@toast.ooo · 3 days ago

TIL that Eurasian brown bear (Ursus arctos arctos) is the bearest of all bears – "ursus" means bear, and "arctos" also means bear, so the scientific name translates to "Bear bear bear"

Poof [none/use name]@hexbear.net · 1 day ago

Most of European animals are named like that because Europe considered them the default or generic animals then they named all other animals to be variants of that. The scientific naming system we use today is out of latin a language used by the academics of that time and area. Chloris chloris by instance is the European greenfinch

TIL that Eurasian brown bear (Ursus arctos arctos) is the bearest of all bears – "ursus" means bear, and "arctos" also means bear, so the scientific name translates to "Bear bear bear"

TIL that Eurasian brown bear (Ursus arctos arctos) is the bearest of all bears – "ursus" means bear, and "arctos" also means bear, so the scientific name translates to "Bear bear bear"

Eurasian brown bear - Wikipedia

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