Hottentot (racial term) in an ethnic sense. From the eighteenth century onwards, the term "hottentot" was also a term of abuse without a specific ethnic sense, comparable to "barbarian" or "cannibal". In its ethnic sense, it had developed connotations of savagery and primitivism soon already in the seventeenth century: colonial depictions of the Hottentots (Khoikhoi) in the seventeenth to eighteenth century were characterized by savagery, often suggestive of cannibalism or the consumption of raw flesh, physiological features such as steatopygia and elongated labia perceived as primitive or "simian"; and a perception of the click sounds in the Khoikhoi languages as "bestial". Thus it
Hottentot teal areas. This species is omnivorous and prefers smaller shallow bodies of water. The Hottentot teal is one of the species to which the "Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds" (AEWA) applies. The status of the Hottentot teal on the IUCN Red List is Least Concern. "Spatula hottentota" was previously placed in the genus "Anas," called "Anas punctata." This name was suppressed owing to confusion over type specimens. It has been also referred as "Anas hottentota". and "Querquedula hottentota". There is no subspecies of Hottentot teal being recognized. Adult males have dark brown crown contrasting with paler face, throat,