Re: Gender classes, which to use?

Eric Christopherson wrote:
> 1. What are epicenes?
My apologies, epicene = either gender

> 2. How do you refer to an animal of a specific sex (e.g., mare, bull,
> etc.)?
Either seperate terms (as we do with hen/rooster) or affixes (as in English she-wolf),
or perhaps words meaning "male" and "female", but there are no pronouns distinguishing
gender of an animal.