A grimalkin (also called a greymalkin) is an archaic term for a cat. The term stems from grey (the colour) plus malkin, an archaic term with several meanings (a cat, a low class woman, a weakling, a mop or a name) derived from a hypocoristic form of the female name Maud. Scottish legend makes reference to the grimalkin as a faery cat that dwells in the highlands. Nostradamus the French prophet & astrologer, 1503-1566, had a cat named Grimalkin. Beware the Cat was published in 1570 by William Baldwin. The novel is a story of talking cats, and part of it relates the story of the Grimalkin's death. According to its editors, the story, and thus the name, originates with Baldwin in terms of being the earliest example known in print.
How many species are there in Quebec? In total, Quebec has 89 species of mammals living in terrestrial, freshwater or saltwater ecosystems. Below, we have listed all the species, by order. A camera, text or globe icon next to a species' name indicates a link to a photo, description or distribution map of that species.
List of mammals of Canada. The North American beaver, Castor canadensis, is the national animal of Canada. This is a list of the mammal species recorded in Canada. There are approximately 200 mammal species native to Canada. Its large territorial size and variety of ecosystems, ranging from mountains to plains to urban housing, mean that Canada can harbour a great variety of species, including nearly half of the known cetaceans. The most well represented order is that of the rodents, and the smallest that of the Didelphimorphia. Studies of mammals in Canada hearken back to the 1795 northern explorati