Wednesday 16 January 2013

Social Rank & Appropriate Bird as Delineated in The Boke of St. Albans

Social Rank & Appropriate Bird as Delineated in The Boke of St. Albans

Emperor: Golden Eagle, Vulture, & Merlin
King: Gyrfalcon (male & female)
Prince: Female Peregrine
Duke: Rock Falcon (subspecies of the Peregrine)
Earl: Peregrine
Baron: Male peregrine
Knight: Saker or sacre
Squire: Lanner Falcon
Lady: Female Merlin
Yeoman: Goshawk or Hobby
Priest: Female Sparrowhawk
Holywater clerk: Male Sparrowhawk
Knaves, Servants, Children: Old World Kestrel



Tuesday 15 January 2013

Zoomorphism

The tendency of viewing human behaviour in terms of the behaviour of animals, analogous to anthropomorphism, which views animal behaviour in human terms

Anthropomorphism

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Pedigree Chum

Bullies smell of pedigree chum. (Pinched from another web page.)

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Sunday 6 January 2013

Friday 4 January 2013

Serotine


serotine

First use: 16th century
Origin: from Latin sērōtinus late, from sērus late; applied to the bats because they fly late in the evening


Of Cats and Bats ISFP.

When Cats can fly, they are Bats.