Re: OT: Stillbirth, naming stuff (Was Re: What? the clean-shaven outnumber the bearded?...)
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, May 22, 2003, 1:05 |
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On Tue, 20 May 2003 21:00:46 -0400, Roger Mills <romilly@...> wrote:
>Mia Soderquist wrote:
> and even
>> some sugar gliders (which are legal where I live,
>> generally imported from Indonesia or bred captive
>> here). I had the gliders for about 5 years when they
>> got sick and died rapidly. I miss them. They are very
>> sweet and devoted pets when they've bonded to you.
>>
>That sounds familiar, but I can't place it. Describe, please. All I can
>think of is the so-called Fruit Bat, AKA flying fox..They're quite large and
>I can't imagine them as pets. Do you happen to know the Indonesian word for
>them???
As it happens, I visited a site not too long ago with Indonesian names of
animals. Several names are listed for the sugar glider.
(from http://users.bart.nl/~edcolijn/diproto.html)
Petaurus breviceps
Author.......... : Waterhouse, 1838.
Synonym......... : P. papuanus.
Common Name..... : Sugar glider; Lesser flying possum.
Vernacular Name. : Oposum layang biasa; Tikus kelapa; Tupai; Panuk naway,
Unundawe (Dani).
Distribution.... : Bacan, Halmahera, Ternate, Gebe, Aru and Kai Islands,
Adi, Misool, Salawati, Irian Jaya, Yapen and Numfoor.
Ecology......... : 0-3000 m.
The Tirelat word for "sugar glider" is "viiri". I don't yet have a word in
Lindiga. Google image search for "sugar glider" to see what they look like.
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