Bird food plants Bird food plants Bird food plants are certain trees, shrubs and herbaceous plants bear fruits which afford food for birds. These have been discovered by observation, and by the scientific examination of the contents of birds' stomachs. By planting those species, therefore, which have been proved most desirable and that are suited to the climate and soil of the chosen location, birds can be attracted to the vicinity of dwelling houses or to any other desired spot as a copse or shrubbery, or, on the other hand, lured away from valuable orchards, since they appear to like best arid, bitter,
Names for the human species "animal capable of rationality", a term used in medieval scholasticism (with reference to Aristotle), and also used by e.g. Carl von Linné 1760, Immanuel Kant 1798. Based on the same pattern is "animal sociale" or "social animal" "animal laborans" "laboring animal" (Hannah Arendt 1958) and "animal symbolicum" "symbolizing animal" (Ernst Cassirer 1944). The binomial name "Homo sapiens" was coined by Carl Linnaeus (1758). Names for other human species were introduced beginning in the second half of the 19th century ("Homo neanderthalensis" 1864, "Homo erectus" 1892). There is no consensus on the taxonomic delineation between human species, human subspecies and the