Costard upper-class. While mocking a pedantic schoolmaster, Costard uses the word "honorificabilitudinitatibus", the longest word by far from any of Shakespeare's works. Costard makes many clever puns, and is used as a tool by Shakespeare to explain new words such as "remuneration". He is sometimes considered one of the smartest characters in the play due to his wit and wordplay. Costard's name is an archaic term for apple, or metaphorically a man's head. Shakespeare uses the word in this sense in "Richard III". Costard Costard is a comic figure in the play "Love's Labour's Lost" by William Shakespeare. A country bumpkin,
Azagnyi fruit bat decline. Azagnyi fruit bat The Azagnyi fruit bat ("Megaloglossus azagnyi"), also called the western Woermann’s fruit bat, is a species of megabat found in Africa. It was described as a new species in 2012. Its description was the result of a taxonomic split of the Woermann's bat, which was previously the monotypic representative of the genus "Megaloglossus". Its species name ""azagnyi"" is derived from Azagny National Park in Ivory Coast. Azagny National Park is the type locality for the species. It is a relatively small frugivorous bat species, weighing . Its forearm length is . Its fur is uniformly dark