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If I had a nickel for every post I saw today about oxbows, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.
Not a felinophile?
Yep, this had me confused because Ailuropoda is the panda family.
I mean red pandas are pretty cat like.
FWIW the suffix -poda means "feet." So the panda family's name literally translates as "cat-like-feet"! ๐ฑ ๐ฆถ
Wow! My mind, if not blown has been somewhat stirred by this information.
The prefix ailuro- does mean cat, in much the same way that the word "felis" means cat.
But I'm not enough of a pedant to try to argue the point though -- in our crazy, anything goes modern world, people use whole words in place of prefixes all the time, and that's okay: languages change! Just like ailuro- used to be Greek, and then got pulled into Latin! ๐
I guess it makes sense to use Latin in scientific names given how redundant it is.
Just wanted to say that I love these every time I see them, so thank you for sharing them so regularly!
Thank you! I'm a big fan of Grant Snider's work, and I'm happy to share it with others :)
For some reason a perfectly fine river will often insist on forming and oxbow and complete ruining a straight path :/
this post was submitted on 13 Oct 2024
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