Talk:Palearctic realm/Archive 1

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Archive 1

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"Animal families originally unique to the Palearctic ecozone include: "

Have removed 'horses' and 'cows' as these families also both occur in the Afrotropical ecozone (Zebras, African Wild Buffalo) - MPF 11:47, 6 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Map needs edit: the map is conspicuously missing the Japanese islands of Shikoku and Kyushu, which are shown as part of the Pacific Ocean. Who can fix the map? - ForbiddenEvilAnon — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.39.176.151 (talk) 01:25, 4 June 2005 (UTC)

Zomia (geography)

Does mention of Zomia (geography) belong to this article? It is neologism for the shatter zones along the southern limit from Afghanistan to the mountains of South China. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pawyilee (talk • contribs) 16:12, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

How many?

Maybe i'm just not understanding, but Nearctic ecozone says there are nine ecozones, and Palearctic ecozone says there are eight; one of these is incorrect? Cheers, Lindsay^Hello 08:04, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

Etymology please

Hi - why "palearctic"? Does it mean something like "old arctic"? Why? Would be nice to have this in the article please --mcld (talk) 15:03, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

It refers to the "Old World" (Eastern Hemisphere), in contrast to the "New World", Nearctic of the Americas. Similar terms include Paleotropics (Old world tropics) and Neotropics.--Animalparty-- (talk) 07:52, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

What's it got to do with "arctic"? Please provide definition and etymology. Kortoso (talk) 20:30, 5 December 2013 (UTC)