Shake, shiver, and tremble: Why dogs do it. Every dog owner has experienced their pooch shaking off water after a bath or a walk in the rain. But what about other instances of dog shivering, shaking, or trembling? A dog tremble, shake, or shiver can mean all kinds of different things â some good and some bad.
The strawberry the Romans feasted upon would bear little resemblance to what you would acknowledge as a strawberry from the grocery store today. That being said, Vavilov (the 'Father' of the study of botanical origins) placed the strawberry's centre of origin as South America, specifically Chile.
The origin of 'guinea' in 'guinea pig' is a little bit harder to explain. One of the hypotheses is that because the guinea pigs were brought into Europe trough Guinea, it is there from where they were labeled as such.thers believe it may be an alteration of the word Coney; guinea pigs were referred to as 'pig coneys' in Edward Topsell's 1607 treatise on quadrupeds.