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
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