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:
“A man’s personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“At present our only true names are nicknames.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)