Jungle

The word jungle usually indicates a type of vegetation characteristic of the India: a herbaceous formation cash an irregular proportion of trees. The success of the book of Rudyard Kupling, the Book of the jungle, popularized the term which indicates from now on, by abusive extension, the dense forest with the Végétation green and luxuriant, such as the wet Forêt.

Etymology

The word comes from the Sanskrit jangada which refers to wild natural spaces. In much of languages of the Indian sub-continent, it is generally used to indicate any wild ground space, not cultivated or not emphasized, as well the forests as ic spaces Désert.

Characteristics

The jungle is a Biome forest present in the climatic areas equatorial and tropical. It has strong a Biodiversité.

Symbolism

In Occident, the jungle inherited the negative connotations of the old woman Forêt (that or grinds the wolf tales for children) to which were added the negative aspects of exoticism (unknown and brutality) and of the hot and wet places (miasmas and Vermine). The jungle is thus the incarnation of intolerable inhumanity, and the law of the jungle a form of Anarchie which acts political as scarecrow.

See too

jungle|jungle

Simple: Jungle

Note

Random links:Canton of Charny-on-Meuse | Michel Gagneux | Leopold Engleitner | Thomas Betterton | Alexandre II Vladimirski | Hilliard,_Ohio