Brock
| Brock | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kinrick: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Cless: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Faimily: | Mustelidae |
| Genus: | Meles |
| Species: | M. meles |
| Binomial name | |
| Meles meles | |
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| Brock range | |
| Synonyms | |
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Ursus meles Linnaeus, 1758 | |
The brock (Meles meles) is a cutty-shankit, girthie mammal that bides athort Europe, Aisie an the Americaes. Thare's aucht speshies o brock.
Etymology
[eedit | eedit soorce]The wird 'brock' is a Celtic lendwird (Scots Gaelic: broc, Welsh: broch, frae Proto-Celtic *brokko).
See also
[eedit | eedit soorce]References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ Kranz, A.; Tikhonov, A.; Conroy, J.; Cavallini, P.; Herrero, J.; Stubbe, M.; Maran, T.; Fernades, M.; Abramov, A. & Wozencraft, C. (2008). "Meles meles". IUCN Reid Leet o Threatened Species. Version 2008. Internaitional Union for Conservation o Naitur. Retrieved 21 Mairch 2009. Cite uses deprecated parameter
|last-author-amp=(help)CS1 maint: ref=harv (link) Database entry includes a brief juistification o why this speshies is o least concern
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