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https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Citations:kine#English - kine is not a collective noun, but a simple plural.
https://www.britannica.com/animal/ox-mammal-Bos-taurus - Ox is a generic singular gender neutral term for cattle. Albeit, in sourcing this, there is a substantial amount of use of it for a bullock (Br. Eng) or steer (Am. Eng). Likely a later change to the use of the word, but language does morph. Speaking of bullocks...
https://www.britannica.com/dictionary/bullock, https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/bullock, https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/bullock, https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/bullock - bullock as a male term.
Appreciated 82.11.195.62 (talk) 17:36, 22 June 2023 (UTC)
Under hare, it has "leverine [citation needed]" dated 2019. I'm a newbie here & would like to understand how this works. Is the info deleted after some amount of time? How much time? Who does the deletion? If time is up & anyone can delete, is it ok for me to delete it? I could not find any info about this term when related to hares. Sunandshade (talk) 05:38, 16 November 2023 (UTC)
Confused as to what goes in each section. For Generic terms, under Leporidae (rabbits/hares), for male is has jack. Does that mean both rabbits & hares can use this term? Or, does it mean only 1 can use this term, but the Generic table is to include ALL terms for all animals in that category? Sunandshade (talk) 07:02, 17 November 2023 (UTC)
The redirect List of gender names has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 November 26 § List of gender names until a consensus is reached. –CopperyMarrow15 (talk | edits) Feel free to ping me! 19:49, 26 November 2023 (UTC)
I see the following listed among the young of humans: baby, boy (male), child, girl (female), and infant. I was always under the impression that kid was another of the accepted terms for human young. Is this a misconception? Is there a reason why kid is not listed? allixpeeke (talk) 04:21, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
There are three different collective nouns for vultures (kettle, committee, and wake) listed on the wiki page for vultures (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulture), including a footnote for the source ([6] Hamilton, S.L. (2014). "Sky Burials").
I am sure the source is correct, but I cannot provide a second source. I had encountered those collective nouns elsewhere, but I forget where other than it was a website about word usage.
I am too inexperienced with wiki editing to know how to add a new line to the matrix for vultures. Rendel B. Moshe (talk) 22:58, 14 April 2024 (UTC)
An idea for another column would be for animals' calls or cries e.g. "donkey" "braying". 93.195.235.128 (talk) 13:41, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
I don't fully understand the intention of this (List) article, given the nature of it's gross incompleteness. I can't imagine how such a very large and diverse collection of animal terms could ever be, or want to be, maintained as a wiki page. N.B. Approximately 8.7 million species of animals on the planet. SquashEngineer (talk) 14:42, 17 August 2024 (UTC)