Animals with multiple names?

[Orque41]

Here I am going to make a list of the animals which have several names at least two or more to help Frontier. Tell me if I have forgotten any animals that have multiple names.

1. Puma - mountain lion -cougar
2. Otocyon - Bat-eared fox
3. Orca - Killer whale - Killer whale
4. Dendrolague - Kangaroo
arboreal
5. Persian panther - Iranian leopard
6. Ceylon Panther - Sri Lankan Leopard
7. White-handed Gibbon - Lar Gibbon
8. Elk - Moose
9. Mandarin salamander - Emperor newt
10. Beluga - white whale

 

[solacefruit]

4. Dendrolague - Kangaroo
arboreal

I think "tree-kangaroo" is probably the better name for that group. I have literally never once in my Australian life heard them called kangaroo arboreal.

 

[Fossa]

Isn’t Elk another name for Wapiti?

 

[DarthQuell]

I think "tree-kangaroo" is probably the better name for that group. I have literally never once in my Australian life heard them called kangaroo arboreal.

I think it's a mistranslation. If I'm not mistaken, I believe Orque is from Spain? Am I correct. If that's the case, in Spanish the name is backwards. For example, the Red Kangaroo becomes Canguro Rojo (Kangaroo Red). Also, arboreal shares the same roots as the word árbol, which means "tree" in Spanish

 

[avietar]

Isn’t Elk another name for Wapiti?

It depends. Elk is also another word for moose, but elk can also be used for wapiti, or North American red deer. Many European languages have similar sounding names for moose that sound like elk. For example, the Swedish word for Moose is älg. In the UK, elk was the name first used for moose (alces alces) but when they went extinct there, it became the name used for the next big deer: red deer (cervus elaphus). So when the English speakers came to the US, they called the big red deer there 'elk' (cervus elaphus for the longest time, but now they are called cervus canadensis), but now the US people needed another word for those largest animals, which became 'moose' (loan word from native Americans). Meanwhile in the UK, they needed another word for the North American big red deer that weren't elk (because elk are moose). They chose to use the word 'wapiti'. So now we have moose which are also called elk, and elk which are also called wapiti. Confusing stuff!