Swan if a mate dies, the remaining swan will take up with another. The number of eggs in each clutch ranges from three to eight. The English word 'swan', akin to the German "Schwan", Dutch "zwaan" and Swedish "svan", is derived from Indo-European root "*swen" (to sound, to sing). Young swans are known as "swanlings" or as "cygnets"; the latter derives via Old French "cigne" or "cisne" (diminutive suffix -"et" "little") from the Latin word "", a variant form of "cycnus" "swan", itself from the Greek "kýknos", a word of the same meaning. An adult male is a "cob", from Middle
Donald A. Swan Donald A. Swan Donald A. Swan (March 28, 1935 – June 1981) was an American anthropologist. Donald A. Swan was born on March 28, 1935. He studied Economics at Columbia University. Swan was an assistant professor at the University of Southern Mississippi. He was a co-founder of the International Association for the Advancement of Ethnology and Eugenics and was involved in the Northern League. In 1966, Swan was arrested on mail-fraud charges. During the raid on Swan's apartment in Queens, New York, the police found Nazi memorabilia, weapons and ammunition. A book by George Lincoln Rockwell of the American Nazi