Archives de catégorie : Méliphilie

On trouvera ici, dans le prologement du journal principal de la Vigie du Villard, les pages que je consacre au suivi d’une famille de Blaireaux d’Europe, Meles meles.

Sur le nom choisi, voir le livre de Daniel Heath Justice « Badger »: “Phil Drabble emphatically declared that he suffered from ‘acute and incurable melophilia . . . a rare and delightful ailment from which I am thankful that I can never be healed . . . The only symptomis a deep affection for badgers.’ While Drabble intended this term to be a reference to Meles meles, it is an unfortunate neologism, for not only did he not coin melophilia, the word actually refers to a love of music, with melomania a ‘frantic fondness’ and melophobia an ‘aversion’ (…). Dr John Aveline, a professional Latinist, suggested ‘meliphilia’ (and the anglicized ‘meliphile)’ as the more appropriate Latin forms of Drabble’s ailment.”