10 Countries Named After Animals
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The Animals in Our Everyday Words & Phrases: podcasts.apple.com/mn/podcast...
Cape Cod: www.weneedavacation.com/Cape-....
Lizard Point: www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/de...
Pigeon Island: www.cheapflights.co.uk/news/p...
Phoenix Arizona: www.phoenix.gov/pio/city-publ....
Fly: babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?i...
Bumble Bee: babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?i...
Canary Islands: www.gran-canaria-info.com/en/...
Bay of Pigs: forum.duolingo.com/comment/15...
Capri: www.etymonline.com/word/capri
Galapagos: www.santacruzgalapagoscruise....
Abu Dhabi: www.quora.com/How-did-the-nam...
Alcatraz: www.history.com/news/10-thing...
Panama: www.geocities.ws/NapaValley/41....
Uruguay: www.academiauruguay.com/monte...
Cameroon: www.etymonline.com/word/cameroon
Mali: www.2oceansvibe.com/2019/10/0....
Sierra Leone: theculturetrip.com/africa/sie...
Singapore: www.quora.com/What-is-the-ety...
Faroe: www.faroeislands.fo/the-big-p....
Kosovo: www.britannica.com/place/Kosovo
Spain: www.culturespain.com/2011/05/....
Somehow I was dumb enough to forget Italy, which is thought to mean Land of Baby Cows. Where else did I forget about?
my friend lives in a place called 'shat'
someone clearly doesn't understand what 'une chat' was and couldn't understand french
For the amphibians part are some villages in Romania called Broșteni after a guy nemed Giurgea Broască, broscă means frog in romanian language
If you have mentioned Spain, you could have also mentioned Georgia. There's an argument that the country's both endonym (Sakartvelo) and exonym is derived from old Persian word - Gurgan, meaning, land of the wolves.
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What about marsupials - kangaroo Island
As a Portuguese-speaker, I was rather surprised when I first learned Cameroon wasn't just called "Shrimp" in English. 🇨🇲🦐
That'd be silly lol
@@danielimmortuos666 That's literaly what we call "Camarões" in Portuguese. hahaha
Prawns
I had the same with Serra Leoa, thought it should be called "Lioness Mountains"
I regret joking about the name of the country when I learned it in Portuguese now that I know the name in English came from the Portuguese name. So, in Spanish, we should name the country "Camarones" instead of "Camerún".
Frog City, Florida. Currently a ghost town.
*country's*
Don't forget Bullfrog County Nevada too. The only U.S. county with no roads to it or through it. Half As Interesting recently did a video about it.
@@DontEatYourMicrowave *countries
“We’re looking for places named after animals”
“Lizard point isn’t named after lizards”
I found the origin of the Cornish placename Lizard very interesting since the words LIS and ARD are also present in Irish Gaelic and are also present in many Irish placenames such as Ardoyne or Lismore etc.
"Afghanistan" comes from the word Aśvakan, which means "horsemen" or "horse breeders".
So it is related to an animal name
"Hey, where are you from?"
"Prawns."
Skrimpland.
I'm of Canarian descent (my great grandma is from there) and I cringe when people say the islands are named after the bird. Thank you for explaining the name origin to new people
Excuse me sir would you like a hotdog?
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not the exact name, but there is an Island in Panama, in Bocas Del Toro, known as a Frog Island because there are many red-eyed frogs there
Bocas del Toro is an animal name too!
@@Steveofthejungle8 hell yeah it means bull's mouths
There's a small city near where I live in Germany called "Katzenelnbogen" which translates to "cats elbow"
Also another city near me, Oppenheim, has a well called "Toad's well" (Krötenbrunnen) and there's a wine named after it that they export internationally. My mom told me that on a vacation to the US she saw "Oppenheimer Krötenbrunnen" being sold
Cat's elbow??
A video about flag names, their meanings and history would be nice, I really like your videos, keep up the good work!
Here in Russia we have a town named after a mouse.
It's Myshkin in Yaroslavl' oblast. There is a legend, that while local prince traveled this land he was woken up my a mouse. At first he became furious but than spotted a snake and realized the tiny creature had saved him. So he named the place Myshkino. Later it became a village and turned into a town. You can find various mouse museums there, as well as mice on coat of arms and other local symbols. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myshkin_(town)
Intersting, thanks for sharing.
Also worth pointing the fairly small Brazilian town of Lagarto, that literally means "lizard". I have no clue as to the origin of the name, but my guess would be the animal itself.
A N T A G O R D A would like to have a word
@@riograndedosulball248 Fat Tapyr is hard to beat. 🤣
Sheep's Head is a peninsula in West Cork, Ireland. Its on the Wild Atlantic Way and has amazing views.
You have Corvo island (Crow) in the Açores [Azores] archipelago (Northern goshawk).
Azores itself is named after an animal
In the Caribbean, you missed the island of Tortuga and the Île de la Tortue (Haiti) both meaning Turtle island, also Anguilla because of the shape of eel.
For insects there’s the Mosquito Coast in Nicaragua and Honduras
Mývatn in Iceland is named after Mý which is a kind of small fly that buzzes around there
you’re thinking of the miskito coast, that’s not referring to mosquitos but instead to the miskito people but i understand the confusion
1:01 Actually there are way more classes of animals. Those five classes are the five traditional classes of vertebrates (which are on themselves a branch of cordates), and still the "reptils" are a mix of different evolutive branches like the saurids.
Trying to group animals together, welcome to the world of cladistics and the naming conventions thereof.
"here are the groups of animals: vertebrates, vertebrates, vertebrates, vertebrates, vertebrates, everything else"
All vertebrates are fish!!!
There’s a manatee county in Florida! Possum kingdom lake in Texas, Lizard Lick in North Carolina, Rio Lagartos in Mexico
And the city of Manatí in Puerto Rico is also named after the manatee
There’s a town in Arkansas in the United States named Toad Suck haha. Stay well out there everybody, and Jesus Christ be with you friends.😊
Thank you for producing such quality content! Your voice is always so soothing 😊
Italy comes from the latin word for calves
1:55 *Turkey has left the chat*
Patrick, you forgot the UK overseas territory of Cayman Islands, named after caiman reptiles.
Tocantins, a state of Brazil, means "toucan's beak"
0:44 I was taught this back in primary school as well, but in working on my Biology degree, I understand that this is quite an outdated way of categorizing animals. It showed a huge bias towards vertebrates(making up 5 of the 6) and especially tetrapods (making up 4 of the 6). This is probably due to a bias towards humans since we are tetrapods 🤷🏻♂️. The 2 biggest flaws, though, were in scale and relationships.
Scale: “Invertebrates” is now composed of many phyla (a broader position than class), whereas the other 5 are still just class level. In terms of numbers of species, beetles make up 95+% of all animals (and they are just an order within the class of insects within 1 of many phyla of “invertebrates”.
Relationships: some “invertebrates” are more closely related to vertebrates than to other “invertebrates”.
Note: I put invertebrates in quote marks because that term no longer functions properly when discussing relationships. Vertebrates does still function, for all vertebrates share a common ancestor. Interestingly, “fish” no longer functions properly either; in order for it to function properly, it would have to include all tetrapods as well (i.e. the first 4 classes listed in this video (mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians) would be within what is listed as the 5th class) [insert dizzy emoji].
I live near Stuttgart in Germany, which name originally meant 'garden of mares' (German: "Stutengarten"). This stems from the fact that the area around the city was used for grazing horses. This is also the reason why the city's coat of arms shows a horse (Car-lovers might know that coat of arms also as the logo of Porsche)
Edit: I've been factchecking and it seems I got a detail wrong. The "Stutt"-part in the name is apparently derived from old German "Stuot", which is related to "Stute" (mare), but meant a herd of horses. So "Stuttgart" actually means something like "horse garden".
I wonder if it’s etymologically related to the English word ’stud’. I know a lot of words for horses flipped genders over time (ie. Old English ‘maeras’ meant a horse of any gender, but it’s descendant word ‘mare’ specifically means a female horse)
Anyways, my point is if there was a grain of truth to claiming to be from Stud Garden, I would do it 😂
@@aidanwotherspoon905 yes, you are right, at least about 'stud' and 'Stute'. They both derived from a common proto-germanic ancestor. (en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/stud)
So it originally meant a herd of horses or the blace where they are kept, then evolved into meaning a female horse in German and a male horse in English. It still means the place as well in English while German invented the word 'Gestüt' for that purpose (although that's a bit archaic)
I couldn't find something about 'mare' or it's ancestor-words meaning horse in general though, but I think it quite possible
@@louisgray3479 I only know 'maer' because I'm a Tolkien nerd (The Rohirrim were portrayed as Anglo-Saxons and the horses bred by the Rohirrim were called maeras)
now that you've shown me the word 'Gestüt' and you say it's rather archaic, I wonder if that "ge-" prefix is related to the "ge-" prefix that applies to OE verbs in a way I've never fully understood but only survives in Modern English in the word 'enough'
@@aidanwotherspoon905 The 'ge-'-prefix fulfills different functions in German. It can be used for collective nouns.
e.g. 'die Äste' (the branches) -> 'das geäst' (all the branches on a tree or in a forest).
Most of this tend to be used mainly in literature or becoming archaic. (The only one of these I which is still used in oral speech is 'Gebirge' (collection of mountains/mountain range). This is probably where 'Gestüt' came from as well.
It is used to form particles from verbs to describe something, that has been done. From what Wikipedia tells me this was also done in Old English and I assume this is what you meant.
'tun' (to do) -> 'getan' (done)
These can be used in perfect and plusquamperfect tense:
'Ich habe etwas getan' (I have done something)
'Ich hatte etwas getan' (I had done something)
or as adjectives
'die getane Arbeit' (The work which is done)
According to Wiktionary the word enough derived from Old English 'ġenōg' (cognate to German 'genug') which in turn derived from proto-germanic *ganōgaz=*ga+*nōgaz (reach, archive, carry out).
I live in a neighborhood in St. Paul called “Frogtown” which either got its name as a derogatory name for French settlers or for previously being a marsh where lots of chirping frogs could be heard. The neighborhood has adopted the second explanation.
The longest placename in Ireland is somewhat named after an animal! Muiceanach idir Dhá Sháile means "Pig marsh inbetween two sea inlets"
Many places in Ireland are named after animals! Poll an Chapaill means Horses hole (for drinking), same thing with Poll na mBroc which means Badger's hole, An Capall Dubh which is Blackhorse (in Dublin) etc...
A district of Budapest, previously a village itself: Békásmegyer.
From Wikipedia:
The first recorded name of the village was Megyer, which refers to the fact that people from the Megyer tribe (who gave their name to Magyars) settled here after the migration of Hungarians into Pannonia in the early 10th century. Megyer belongs to the oldest strata of Hungarian toponymy.
In the second half of the 17th century Megyer was destroyed by the wars with Ottoman Turks. The village was resettled by German colonist from the 1740s onwards. They called the village Krottendorf (literally "Frogbury") because of the frog-populated marshes of the Danube river meadows.
Hungarians called the village Békás-Megyer, meaning "Frog's Megyer", since the beginning of the 19th century. Now District III. is officially called Óbuda-Békásmegyer.
City in Canada: Happy Valley-Goose Bay :)
A few places in Canada that are named after animals are the city of Moose Jaw in Saskatchewan, Head-smashed-in Buffalo Jump in Alberta (a UNESCO world heritage site), and a pair of mountain peaks near Vancouver called The Lions, who the city's football team, the BC Lions, are named after
There's a Frog Island Park in Ypsilanti, MI, USA (Ypsilanti might be a fun name for you in and of itself), and there are two Frog Islands in Ontario, Canada.
One for amphibians is near where I live: Mantoloking, NJ. The name comes from the Lenape indian word meaning "frog ground."
There is a Salamander Bay in the Port Stephens area north of Newcastle NSW Australia. Another Australian animal names is Parramatta (2nd CBD of Sydney) which in the local language meant where eels gather.
Could you do countries named after sounds next? Or smells or anything other than sights?
Reminds me that one of the first towns in Red Dead Redemption is named Armadillo.
Of course there is another connection between Canaries and Dogs in East London with Canary Wharf being built on the Isle of Dogs
Seal Beach (neighborhood in LA County), Big Bear, Mammoth, Mariposa (butterfly in Spanish) near Yosemite - lots of animal place names in California.
Maybe it’s a stretch (because it’s not a country and not only an animal) but in Sweden we have a town called Örnsköldsvik wich translates to Eagle-shield-bay.
A couple of Irish ones: Waterford is originally Norse and was called the Fjord of Wethers, a kind of sheep. The western island of Achill is from the latin Aquila, Eagle.
Loved it! Especially the Sierra Leone story.
Quick note: as a general rule of thumb Spanish words beginning with 'al' are Arabic in origin ('al' being the definite article) and on account of the 700+ year occupation of Al-Andalus, regardless of how they find their way into British and American lexicons.
This includes aljedrez (chess), algebra, alchemy, and alcohol.
And never pronounce the 'h' in 'Alhambra'. I don't know how that jives in Arabic but it is certainly not Spanish.
You can always meet me on Skype for help in Spanish.
Cheers!
A video about the names of a ship's anatomy would be cool!
There actually is a place close to where I live called Frogtown,outside of the city of Hazard,Kentucky..It's just up the road from an area called Combs
Bern, "Capital" of Switzerland, has two non-confirmed theories of name origin. One of them is about bears, which is why their flag is a bear, and theres a bunch of bears in a cage near the center.
the other one is of celtic origin.
Ard also means high/tall in Irish. Lis could relate to the Irish Lios, meaning ringfort.
Irish (Gaelic) and Cornish and Welsh (Brittonic) were once fairly closely related (Celtic) languages and still share a few words... Abhainn/Avon (river), Trom/Trwm (heavy), Tanaí/Tenau (thin), Gaoth/Gwynt (wind), Dubh/Du (black), Lámh/Llaw (hand), and so on.
There's a Salamander Bay in NSW, Australia. portstephens-australia.com/port-stephens-destinations/salamander-bay/
You said you "couldn't find a Salamander Bay" and I thought "that sounds familiar" - as it should seeing I holidayed nearby once.
having my home...peninsula(?) being mentioned first was very expected but also very unexpected. cape cod seems to be forgotten about quite often.
Place named after amphibians: Brosteni (small Romanian city). The name comes from a medieval nobleman called Broasca, which literally means frog.
I think you forgot Rome, and by extension Romania.
I thought Rome was named after Romulus?
@@Joseph-xf9lq in the origin myth of rome, yes. But that is likely fiction.
There are a number of likely sources. One possibility is that it's from an etruscan word meaning 'teat'.
Another is that it's from a Greek word meaning 'strength'.
But the one I find most compelling is that it's from an old alternate name for the Tiber river, 'Rumon', which is a word that has many cognates across the indo-european languages. An English cognate, for example, would be the word 'stream'
@@joelmattsson9353 so either way, he’s wrong?
@@Joseph-xf9lq not necessarily. Those are the most accepted explanations from what I could find at a glance, but there may be other reasonable explanations out there that I'm just not aware of.
And I suppose 'teat' is an animal part, so 🤷♂️
We might never know quite for sure. That's just the nature of this kind of study.
My current town of residence is called Kotka which translates to Eagle. The town was named after the island in the area, Kotkansaari, meaning eagle's island.
There is actually way more than 6 classes of animals, for starters, fish are actually 6 classes and invertebrates isn't a single group of animals that actually contains vertebrates. Invertebrates are made up of around 33 phyla (which is one rank above a class) and over 100 classes. One of those phyla, the phylum chordata contains the invertebrate lancelets and tunicates as well as the vertebrates. Vertebrates only make up around 5% of all animal species, that is 73,000 species, and the largest group of invertebrates, arthropods, has over 1,100,000 species, which yeah is a lot of bugs.
Frog Rock in New Zealand is a rock that's totally a giant rock from a time lost to history or it's rock that looks like a frog.
Bahía Coqui or Bahia de Coqui a place in Colombia and in Mexico apparently is name after a small frog in Puerto Rico that is named after the sound it makes “coqui”. Also in Puerto Rico there is an island named Culebra (snake in Spanish) and Isla de la Mona which translates to island of the female monkey.
You also forgot to mention Cayman Island which is named after the alligator like reptile.
Off the north coast of Haiti there’s an island name after tortoise in Spanish Tortuga. You can make a part 2 of all the places you miss named after animals, like Monte Palomar in California which translates into mount dovecote and Deer Key, Florida.
There is a Salamander bay in NSW in Australia.. it’s a suburb of Port Stephens, but it’s named after the bay, which is named after a convict ship HMS Salamander, which used to have the name HMS Shark! So I guess not directly named after a salamander itself, it’s name does come from the animal indirectly!
Surabaya, capital of East Java in Indonesia, was named after 2 animals, Shark (Sura in ancient Javanese language) and Crocodile (Baya in ancient Javanese) which is related to the local legend about a fight between those two. The city's coat of arms also bear the image of those two.
I read somewhere that the Moldova river was named after a dog named Molda. I think that's a legend only. In the Philippines there's a group of islands called Babuyan which means "place of pigs"
Here in the Rio Grande do Norte state on the north-east of Brazil, there's a rock formation called "The Frog Boulder". Does it count?
Edit: there's also de Anta Gorda (Fat Tapyr) and Lagarto (lizard) towns and Guarujá in the São Paulo state means "the place where frogs live".
There is a massive port city in Java Island, Indonesia called Surabaya. Sura means shark in old Javanese and Baya means crocodile. Thus SuraBaya means shark vs crocodile. This city was named like this most likely because many foreigners from the sea (represented by sharks, an animal from the sea) invaded this city and the locals (represented by crocodile, an animal from fresh water) resisted their invasion.
The last battle done here was between British troops and locals at 1945 which resulted bloody 16.000 deaths to locals and British victory. The British invaded Surabaya as an assist for the Netherlands to reoccupy Indonesia after World War II but after this victory the UK decided to let Indonesia has its independence from the Dutch. And even more UK then became among the first European nations to acknowledge Indonesian sovereignty.
Shark vs. Crocodile is also probably a movie starring a mid-tier wrestler turned actor.
The Argentine provinces of Corrientes and Tucuman are kinda named after animals.
Corrientes means Streams, but in Guaraní, the province is called Tetavore Taragüí, which means something like "natiom of lizards". (Sí, la marca de yerba se llamá así por eso)
One of Tucumán's possible meanings is "land where the tucu are abundant", the tucu being the a firefly-like beetle.
There's a Fly River in New Guinea, but it was named for a boat.
I suspect that "Galápago", "carapace", "черепаха", and "calabash" all are descended from a word "*k'alapaxu" or something like that in a pre-Indo-European language, meaning "something with a hard shell, whether animal or fruit".
Moosejaw, Saskatchewan
Great Bear Lake and Great Slave Lake, NWT
Red Deer, Alberta
Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador
Canada's loaded with places named after animals
I got news for you, we have a hang out in my small town, of Silverton, Oregon in the US. That we named after amphibians.. and it's also not an Island, but more a tight group of clustered Waterfalls.
But we call this little Hang Out, Salamander Island. However here's another twist can't really find Salamanders there. However it is almost always full of Tree Frogs and Tadpoles.
The location just up a hiking trail by McLaine Park and it's a great place to hang out with family, friends, and even teach the little ones about tadpoles.
To be honest I am still confused as to why we call it Salamander Island and not Tadpole Falls.. because Tadpole Falls seems more like an accurate name for the picture of the tiny place.
There is a place in Washington county, Pennsylvania called "frog town", I've only seen it on a map but I assume it's a small village.
There's a town (and lake) in Minnesota (US) called Buffalo Lake.
You forgot Italy, which you've mentioned before.
I only know an Italian place named after an amphibian, Punta Rospo [Point Toad] in Moneglia, just outside Genoa. Also, most of the districts of Siena are named after animals {en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrade_of_Siena} but I guess English speakers clearly aren't that familiar with those.
also in spain there's a province called León (lion) which was a kingdom in the middle ages. you can still see the lion on Spain's heraldry
In Israel we have stream named "nachal taninim" which translates to "crocodiles stream". This name go as far as the Roman period. The stream, like the other streams in the area, indeed had crocks in it until the end of the 19th century. A bit more to the north there is yet another pigeons island, off the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. And between the Sinai Peninsula and Saudi Arabia there is an island called Snapir, which is Hebrew for "a fin". So, not a full fish but a part of it.
My hometown is named Hundested, literally Dog Place, though hund is in this case a contraction of sælhund, an older word for seal.
In Singapore there's an islet called Pulau Sekedu which means Frog Island.
No mention of Arctic and Antarctica?
What are they named after?
@@happyfacefries Bear land and No Bear Land
@@ntlespino Actually, the Antarctic isn't named after the absence of bears: it just means "opposite the Arctic". And polar bears living in the Arctic is mostly a coincidence; the Arctic is named after the Great Bear, the constellation Ursa Major which contains the North Star.
Italy ... came from vitalia which are roughly ''cattles'' in southern calabria region
Well, in Spanish, there are many places called after animals in the Southern Cone (Southern South America). Such as, Vicuña (Chile), Las Toninas, Lobos, Venado Tuerto (Argentina), Paso de los Toros, Punta Ballena (Uruguay) and so on
I forgot about Tigre, a place near Buenos Aires where there have never been tigers
A bit north of Alcatraz is the town of Tiburon, whose name is the Spanish word for shark. I'm not sure why it has that name, though.
There's a Pelican Island where I live. Not a prison, but a government sanctioned bird orgy venue.
We have Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania in the US
I missed Coney Island, which was names Coneynen Eiland ('rabbit island' in old Dutch) by the Dutch.
You said at the beginning that Turkey was out because you weren't going to talk about animals getting their names from countries. However, the bird had that name for at least 300 years before the country, although the country was not named after the bird, but after the last tribe to conquer the region ( the Ottoman Turks).
Bullfrog Utah is a small town on the reservoir Lake Powell
Žabljak (pleace where the frogs are) is a town in Montenegro.
The Arctic Ocean and Antarctica both get their names from the Greek word for bear, I'm guessing from Ursa Major and Ursa Minor (Ursa being the Latin equivalent). Antarctica because it's opposite the Arctic. There's also Great Bear Lake in Canada.
You got the class thing a bit wrong, those were the classes of chordates or vertebrates, there are probably a dozen other classes of animals
There's a village in the Netherlands called Dieren which translates into English as Animals.
And we have Duiven (Pigeons) 😋
The city of Surabaya (Indonesia) literally means Shark (Sura) & Crocodile (Baya) which have a pretty bad ass city emblem as well.
There's a city in Mississippi called Alligator. It's named after the local lake.
There's also a place in Florida called Frog City.
Gotta love the South.
There is an entire state in Mexico named Guanajuato. It’s derived from the indigenous purepecha word for “frog hill”.
And it has city named León, named after the León region of Spain. And Mexico also has a state named Nuevo León
@@rayelgatubelo yeah, but he asked for a place named after an amphibian.
the largest lake in southamerica, the Titicaca, might mean in the native tongue of the region "cougar stone" or "cougar made of stones" which references either a myth of origin of the lake or the shape of it
The traditional name for Bhutan is Druk Yul, meaning Land of the Thunder Dragon.
Then there's the nation of Georgia. The name origin is still somewhat debated, but the word may have come from Gurg/Gurgan in Perisen, meaning Land of Wolves. So that's pretty cool.
Toad Suck,Arkansas, a small community, The sight of an Arkansas River crossing and USCoE Lock and Dam, Famous fro their anual festival "Toad Suck Days".
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toad_Suck,_Arkansas?wprov=sfti1
There's the Portuguese island of Azores, but it's one of those kinda not really. In Spanish and Portuguese "azor" is a word for some types of hawk. So the folk etymology is that when the Portuguese first got there they spotted a bunch of hawks and presto, Azores island. But I looked it up and apparently there were never any "azores" birds on the island, and the name comes from the word azure, which means blue.
Capital city of Sarawak, a state in the Federation of Malaysia in the island of Borneo is Kuching.... kuching or kucing in the Malay Languange means cat in English
In my Hometown of Neuss in Germany there is an City part called Taubental or Pigeon Valley
any ideas about Frognal, in London?
FYI there is a Salamander street in Leith, however I believe it is named after a ship (captured by the English).
Could you make a video about symbols and names of math equations? And perhaps the Greek alphabet?
My great-grandparents lived in a town called Bird, West Virginia.
In Bulgaria there's a town called "Wolves' Valley" lol
Republic of Bashkortostan is named after bee. In local Bashkir language qort means bee and name Bashkortostan means land of head of bees. This region also produces worlds best honey.
Australia is teeming with places named after animals.... Kangaroo Island, Lizard Island, Rottnest Island (the Dutch thought the native quokkas looked like rats), Salamander Bay, Parramatta (eels), Carcoar (ravens), Kakadu, Cockatoo Island, Emu Plains, Peregian (emu) Beach, the Cassowary Coast, Wombat, Mittagong (dingos), Wagga Wagga (crows), Wangi Wangi (owls), Warragul (dingo), Gundagai (birds), Swan River, Captain’s Flat (named after a bull named Captain), Marvel Loch and Tarcoola (both towns named after a prize-winning horses)... just to name a few
Vancouver is named after a man who comes from a family called 'van coeverden', coevorde itself being a place in the Netherlands. Coevorde means a place that can be waded through by a cow. two for one?
Bosporus, the strait in Turkey has the same meaning, according to myth a girl named Io waded through the water in the shape of a cow. She had been changed into one by Zeus, who wanted to hide her from his wife Hera.
Oxford, the famous university town in England, is literally a narrow part of a river where oxen would cross. The city of Jacksonville, Florida, was originally named Cowford for the same reason, but was later renamed after President Andrew Jackson, who was considered by some to be an animal.