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I assumed it was from the golden color of the bran in Latin and the honey in Germanic. But phonologically, a 'c' in Latin usually maps to and 'h' in Germanic; cf. canis 'dog' ~ hound, collis 'hill' ~ hill, centum '100' ~ hundred. That takes care the of first 'c', but the last one maps to a 'g' in German Honig, which atrophied into a -y in English. Hoep that helps.
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Sanskrit: 'madhu' - honey
Hoep that helps: It sure does jheem Thanks! And WW, they *are cute! Must go see!
Why don't they bees bother him? Don't all bears like honey?
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>Don't all bears like honey?
A local honey producer where I live, the largest apiary south of the Equator, sponsors the Malaysian Sun Bears at the Wellington Zoo, and has a TV ad that featured both of them with their snouts deep in large pots of the company's product. In fact, since this ad was the only time I had seen Malaysian Sun Bears, I didn't even know about the marking on their chests. When the Wellington pair had a cub, he was called Arataki, after the sponsor company. Sadly, the child must have been an irreformable bad egg, because he received a sentence of breathtaking inhumanity. He was sent to Australia.
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Northern bears have such thick fur the bees can only attack nose and ears. The sunbear is short furred, but the taste of honey pays for the pain. I used to help a bee-keeper taking honey from his hives. He didn't even wear a veil. I have seen him get hundreds of stings on his bald spot, and
just occasionaly murmur:"Oh, cut it out, cut it out."
I didn't enjoy the twenty or so stings I got from bees that
found unprotected areas, but it didn't bother me very much
either. Of course he would have gotten many more stings if
he had not used smoke to mitigate their wrath. I'm not sure
how the smoke works. It may partially block the tiny tubes
through which they get oxygen. That's one of the big effects
of insect sprays.
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When the Wellington pair had a cub, he was called Arataki, after the sponsor company. Sadly, the child must have been an irreformable bad egg, because he received a sentence of breathtaking inhumanity. He was sent to Australia. I handled a sun bear cub at a zoo many moons ago, and I can't remember which zoo it was. Very cute and cuddly except when they want to be put down. Very, very sharp claws and their bite - even as cubs - is not to be sneezed at. This one was being bottle fed because of mum's inability or unwillingness to suckle. I remember the keeper saying that she'd be scarred for life by the time it was weaned. [shock]
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which is why both my children were weaned as they got teeth!
teeth idicate a child is getting old enought to start biting and chewing food-- so soft food and not breast milk became an import sourse of nutrients!
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