Ladies and gentle animals

In human society we use titles, names,or other definitions to identify certain figures, roles; like king or queen etc.  woman, man, girl and boy in stead of awkwardly saying female human, male little human; 

Humans also shared or assgined all kinds titles and names to the animal kingdoms.  Like the head of the ant or bee family is the queen;  Elephants,  form matriarchal societies, the lead female is the Matriarch; so on so forth.

Here I list a few; please add if this has brought up your interest. 

Let's started from deers, seems like the light-weighted deer like herbivores shared this appellation. 

Female: antelope/deer/caribou(rain deer) is called doe, even the tiny hamster or mouse is a doe. remember the song "Do-Re-Mi"  from the movie [The Sound of Music]?   DO, a deer, a female deer?  and the male counter part is called buck

Seems more heavy-built herbivore females carry the badge---cow! cattle/elephant/giraffe/camel/hippo etc. while there is an exception, a female crocodile is also a cow but an all type eater. The males are bull. 

Dog: b*itch dog 

Fox: vixen dog

b*itch and vixen are also used as insulting or defiant wording,  exclusively for woman 

leopard: leopardess, leopard

Lion: lioness, lion

tiger: tigeress tiger

chicken and some other birds: hen, cock

salmon: hen cock, this one sounds fancy for a fish 

pig: sow, boar

zebra/horse: mare stallion

goose: goose gander

duck: duck/hen drake

wolf: b*itch / she-wolf dog

bear: sow / she-bear boar

 

 

 

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• APAD: What is good for the goose is good for the gander. -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/05/2023 postreply 10:34:10

• remembered She-ass He-ass in my bible -移花接木- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/05/2023 postreply 12:46:36

• Good, even more general. -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/05/2023 postreply 14:18:08

• female human, male human,little human. sounds funny.lol -盈盈一笑间- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/05/2023 postreply 11:17:00

• 公鸡用rooster更好点？另一个词据说要少用。 Dog的分类，看了吓了一跳。LOL -盈盈一笑间- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/05/2023 postreply 11:28:02

• Nope, not in here, rooster is informal -移花接木- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/05/2023 postreply 14:09:15

• King cobra: nagina,nag -godog- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/05/2023 postreply 11:44:23

• Thanks for sharing! I like it! -方外居士- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/05/2023 postreply 11:50:27

• Good to know. -waterfowl- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/05/2023 postreply 14:18:37