Talk:Hircocervus

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Removing the “best known through” claim

I am removing the claim “The creature is now best known through The Trusty Servant painting in Winchester College, representing the ideal virtues of its alumni.”

Among people I hang out with, the goat-stag is best known from Aristotle’s use of it in the Posterior Analytics. In other communities, it’s best known from Plato’s citing it. I’ve long known of the goat-stag and had never heard of the Winchester College painting.

Though as a Wykehamist I am pleased to see it here, I question whether the Trusty Servant is a hircocervus at all. A hircocervus is a cross between a stag and a goat. Not a pig.

A closer parallel to the hircocervus might be the koy debated in the Talmud, which is half a tame animal and half a wild one. --Sir Myles na Gopaleen (the da) (talk) 21:47, 5 December 2018 (UTC)

Now sorted. --Sir Myles na Gopaleen (the da) (talk) 10:42, 13 December 2018 (UTC)

Changed terminology

I removed "his" from a sentence describing Italo Calvino's novel Invisible Cities as "his Invisible Cities" to make it flow better with the combined sentence about Umberto Eco's Island of the Day Before. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thylacine24 (talk • contribs) 13:03, 1 July 2019 (UTC)