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This is a great documentary feature about Armenia. The film itself is originally produced in English, but unfortunately I was only able to find this Russian translation. Hope some of you speak Russian 😉
As my previous post suggests this second part is not a re-post but a continuation of more examples of scientific names in nature referring to Armenia.
Armenia has been well known to classical writers; as such many scientific names in nature refer to Armenia as its historic homeland. These names attest to the flora and fauna of Armenian Highlands beyond the borders of the modern Republic of Armenia.
The Armenian bumblebee
Bombus armeniacus, is a species of bumblebee.
Mammuthus armeniacus
The steppe mammoth, Mammuthus armeniacus, is an extinct species of Elephantidae, that ranged over most of northern Eurasia during the Middle Pleistocene, 600,000-370,000 years ago. It was the first stage in the evolution of the steppe and tundra elephants and an ancestor of the woolly mammoth of the later glacial periods.
A while ago when I didn’t have a blog I made an interesting entry on my friend’s blog ArmeniansWorld about a selection of scientific names from nature referring to Armenia as its native and/or classical homeland. In this case I would like to repost the entry here and while I’m at it I’ll add a second part with even more such cases.
Lapis armenus
Lapis armenus, also known as Armenian stone or lapis stellatus, in natural history, is a variety of precious stone, resembling lapis lazuli, except that it is softer, and instead of veins of pyrite, is intermixed with green.
Muscari armeniacum
Generally known as the Grape Hyacinth, is an herbaceous plant of the Botryanthus grouping of the genus Muscari with basal, simple leaves and short, flowering stems.
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