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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There are often many names for a single species because of a community\u2019s culture or a region\u2019s history. For example, the ruffed grouse is often mistakenly called a \u201cpartridge,\u201d the raccoon is even today sometimes referred to as a \u201ccoon\u201d and the ground squirrel becomes a \u201cprairie dog.\u201d When these names are used, they are vernacular names or common names. The language barrier further increases the challenge of understanding each other when it comes to identifying a species.<\/p>\n
In order to understand each other properly, scientists have established a naming system for living beings. Each species, whether a plant, an animal or a bacteria, has a binomial name called the scientific name or the Latin name. This name is comprised of two words, somewhat like our traditional \u201cLast name, first name\u201d structure, and the binomial name is always written as \u201cGenus species\u201d and is uniform in all languages. Therefore, scientists from all over the world are always certain to properly understand each other when they talk about a particular animal species. For example, the scientific name for the common raccoon is Procyon lotor<\/i>, where Procyon<\/i> is the genus and lotor<\/i> is the species. The ruffed grouse is called the Bonasa umbellus<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Sometimes a third name is used for a species. For example, Ursus arctos horribilis<\/i> is a subspecies of brown bear, in this case, the grizzly bear.<\/p>\n
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What\u2019s your name? There are often many names for a single species because of a community\u2019s culture or a region\u2019s history. For example, the ruffed grouse is often mistakenly called a \u201cpartridge,\u201d the raccoon is even today sometimes referred to as a \u201ccoon\u201d and the ground squirrel becomes a \u201cprairie dog.\u201d When these names are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[486,482,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flore-en","category-animals","category-education-en","saisons-ete","saisons-hiver"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n