Ok, and who came up with such a stupid name for a shark?
So, I looked it up out of curiosity and the three most common explanations for the name “nurse shark” are 1) “the sucking sound they make when hunting for prey in the sand, which vaguely resembles that of a nursing baby.” 2) “derived from an archaic word, nusse, meaning cat shark.” 3) “Coming from the Old English word for sea-floor shark: hurse” Link
If you think that’s odd, you’ll find bird names even more entertaining :)
It’s cool that you were able to get so close to one, OP.
nusse, meaning cat shark
Ok, so there is a possibility that the nurse shark has its strange name because it resembles an old name of this shark: cat shark which it completely normal for a shark. Cat shark. Ok. Normal. Cool.
I do love some bush tits and don't get me started on dem booby
Did you find any convincing linguistic or etymological source for nusse? I can find a lot of near-verbatim articles repeating it, including the NatGeo article you've linked, but nothing independent and scholarly about the word.
Ok, and who came up with such a stupid name for a shark?
So, I looked it up out of curiosity and the three most common explanations for the name “nurse shark” are 1) “the sucking sound they make when hunting for prey in the sand, which vaguely resembles that of a nursing baby.” 2) “derived from an archaic word, nusse, meaning cat shark.” 3) “Coming from the Old English word for sea-floor shark: hurse” Link
If you think that’s odd, you’ll find bird names even more entertaining :)
It’s cool that you were able to get so close to one, OP.
Ok, so there is a possibility that the nurse shark has its strange name because it resembles an old name of this shark: cat shark which it completely normal for a shark. Cat shark. Ok. Normal. Cool.
I do love some bush tits and don't get me started on dem booby
Did you find any convincing linguistic or etymological source for nusse? I can find a lot of near-verbatim articles repeating it, including the NatGeo article you've linked, but nothing independent and scholarly about the word.