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Endemic Fauna Of Ghana
Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere. For example, the Cape sugarbird is found exclusively in southwestern South Africa and is therefore said to be ''endemic'' to that particular part of the world. An endemic species can also be referred to as an ''endemism'' or, in scientific literature, as an ''endemite''. Similarly, many species found in the Western ghats of India are examples of endemism. Endemism is an important concept in conservation biology for measuring biodiversity in a particular place and evaluating the risk of extinction for species. Endemism is also of interest in evolutionary biology, because it provides clues about how changes in the environment cause species to undergo range shifts (potentially expanding their range into a larger area or b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orange-breasted Sunbird (Nectarinia Violacea)
The orange-breasted sunbird (''Anthobaphes violacea'') is a species of small, predominantly nectar-feeding bird that is endemism, endemic to the fynbos shrubland biome of southwestern South Africa. It is the monotypic, only member of the genus ''Anthobaphes'', in the family (biology), family sunbird, Nectariniidae (the sunbirds and spiderhunters), though it is sometimes placed in the genus ''Nectarinia''. The birds are Sexual dimorphism, sexually dimorphic, with females being olive green while the males are orange to yellow on the underside with bright green, blue and purple on the head and neck. Taxonomy In 1760 the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson included a description of the orange-breasted sunbird in his ''Ornithologie'', based on a specimen collected from the Cape of Good Hope. He used the French name ''Le petit grimpereau a longue queue du Cap de Bonne Espérance'' and the Latin ''Certhia Longicauda Minor Capitis Bonae Spei''. The two stars (**) at the start of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loan Word
A loanword (also a loan word, loan-word) is a word at least partly assimilated from one language (the donor language) into another language (the recipient or target language), through the process of borrowing (linguistics), borrowing. Borrowing is a metaphorical term that is well established in the linguistic field despite its acknowledged descriptive flaws: nothing is taken away from the donor language and there is no expectation of returning anything (i.e., the loanword). Loanwords may be contrasted with calques, in which a word is borrowed into the recipient language by being directly translated from the donor language rather than being adopted in (an approximation of) its original form. They must also be distinguished from cognates, which are words in two or more language family, related languages that are similar because they share an etymological origin in the ancestral language, rather than because one borrowed the word from the other. Examples and related terms A loanw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
