Nonhuman Personal Names
Apart from the Linnaean taxonomy, some humans give individual nonhuman animals and plants names, usually of endearment.
Read more about this topic: Eastern Name Order
Famous quotes containing the words personal and/or names:
“Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided.... No personal considerations should stand in the way of performing a duty.”
—Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885)
“You shall see men you never heard of before, whose names you don’t know,... and many other wild and noble sights before night, such as they who sit in parlors never dream of.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)