Reminder that the bat-eared fox's scientific name literally means "eardog bigears"

while we're at it, the brown bear's scientific name translates to "bear bear bear"

this is a repost to fix an erroneous earlier version of this post, where I mistakenly said that bear bear bear was the polar bear, when it is actually the brown bear

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I think you can probably understand why I might mix them up and think that Ursus arctos arctos is the polar bear, right?

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