Brock
Appearance
Brock | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kinrick: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Cless: | Mammalia |
Order: | Carnivora |
Faimily: | Mustelidae |
Genus: | Meles |
Species: | M. meles |
Binomial name | |
Meles meles | |
Brock range | |
Synonyms | |
Ursus meles Linnaeus, 1758 |
The brock (Meles meles) is a cutty-shankit, girthie mammal that bides athort Europe, Aisie an the Americaes. Thare's aucht speshies o brock.
Etymology
[eedit | eedit soorce]The wird 'brock' is a Celtic lendwird (Scots Gaelic: broc, Welsh: broch, frae Proto-Celtic *brokko).
See also
[eedit | eedit soorce]References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ Kranz, A.; Tikhonov, A.; Conroy, J.; Cavallini, P.; Herrero, J.; Stubbe, M.; Maran, T.; Fernades, M.; Abramov, A. & Wozencraft, C. (2008). "Meles meles". IUCN Reid Leet o Threatened Species. Version 2008. Internaitional Union for Conservation o Naitur. Retrieved 21 Mairch 2009. Cite uses deprecated parameter
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(help)CS1 maint: ref=harv (link) Database entry includes a brief juistification o why this speshies is o least concern
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