Taxonomy

Taxonomy is a form of evolutionary science in which biological life is organized by a taxonomic rank in regards to evolutionary closeness and prescribed a scientific name when deemed a species. All taxonomy is based off of the various editions of the book Systems of Nature by Carl Linnaeus. Taxonomy itself is a semi- concrete notion and scientists regularly argue and discuss how to place and classify types of animals. It is merely a tool to help scientists understand how close or distant one animal is from another and to separate distinct species. Taxonomy is important in conservation, as the IUCN calculates what a species is on the whole a a group of a certain type of animal that shares a scientific name to indicate that it is discernable and distinct from similar or dissimilar looking relatives and genetically different enough from other groups categorized as species. Sometimes conservationists also count in subspecies, which themselves are populations of a species that are distinguishable from others of its species.

, and also including all subspecies within one species and basing its conservation status based on the whole of their survival and full range rather than individual pockets of populations with their own independent looks, habits, "cultures", and taxonomic subspecies status. It is also important as it helps reclassify common language, with different people changing the names of animals to reflect its species status- for example, changing the names of a group of similar looking animals with specific names for each, often by making their initial name a suffix ("mouse", previously used for all looks can now separate into species as "the great mouse" and "the lesser mouse" and "the grassland mouse"). Animals from different countries will still be assigned a country's name even if they are not in that country, as they are following the species designation which is attributed to that region despite a particular or most of the population living outside of that region ("British mouse", "Scotland mouse", "European mouse" ), and people are corrected with these common names even when common attribution is given the word (the legend tells that the mouse portrayed was a grassland mouse, but his habits and physical descriptions most match the British mouse). Thus the particular name of an animal has more distinction now than it may have been in the past, pre-taxonomy. Before a mouse may have just been a mouse, and the mice of Britain look different than the mice of India. But now there are many common-language distinctions based off of taxonomic rank for these two types of mice.

Taxonomy is important to animals in culture because while some people dismiss is at mere scientific jargon, the culture of scientists is important too. This wikia is not just based off of the perceived common culture, nor the exotic word to designate non-Anglo-Western communities, nor just historical. It is about all the cultures, all the human perspectives. Additionally with time and research, about other animals perspectives as well, as animals have a culture to some extent, easily seen in how one pack of wolves refuse to hunt mountain sheep while others do, another pack of wolves eagerly chases rabbits while others rarely bother. Some groups of feral domestic cats categorize each other by color and make prides based upon thereof, but most don't. Some have more friendly tom terms, with several toms living together, other areas don't. Culture is important to this wikia and the culture scientists have themselves in their work as well as between countries and specializations is important to this wiki, as are how people as a whole in countries, cities, tendencies across families, portrayals in larger media like TV shows and video games, smaller media like indie games and fanfiction, and even how animals approach their own kind and others is all important to this wikia. Therefore taxonomic rank is incredibly important to not only understanding how modern humans relate to animals, but also how we do this in our own ranked levels of culture and for scientists and by itself, as well as being useful to understanding how animals can understand one another through species-genus-subspecies and other relations.

## References

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Taxonomy\_(biology)&oldid=1124363028
2. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Taxon&oldid=1125369918