Question: how do you name the animals?

Reka Nagy answered on 10 Nov 2016:

There are rules that govern how animals are named. Animals may have common names (such as cow, or dog, or cat), but they also have a scientific name, which is in generally in Latin, and consists of two of three words.

For example, the scientific name of cow is Bos taurus, dogs are Canis lupus familiaris, and cats are Felis catus (which is why a lot of cats are given the name Felix!).

The first word of this name tells us which subgroup (called a genus) the animal belongs to, while the second part identifies the animal’s place within this genus, or it can represent the name of the person who discovered the species, or the name of another famous person – such as a beetle called Agra schwarzeneggeri, after Arnold Schwarzenegger, because it has legs that look very muscular, or the wasp called Aleiodes shakirae, so named because the way its prey dances as it dies reminded the person who named it of the way Shakira dances.