Troglodyte

As of right now, I'm fairly positive I have the dubious distinction of knowing more about Neanderthals than anyone else you're likely to know. Just saying.
My lower back hurts something fierce, and I'm not particularly sure why. It may or may not have something to do with bending over my Neanderthal texts and daydreaming about troglodytes and cave bears and woolly mammoths and Irish elk and burial rites and hunting practices and eventually narrowly avoiding crashing over said texts and drooling all over books that I have to return to the library. I have startled Max with my sneezing, which I consider vengeance for the many times he's woken me up at three in the morning with his pathetic wheezing squeaky-toy cough. I slept with earplugs last night, not sure if it made a difference, but I woke up an hour before my alarm went off, so I sat at my desk and zoned out in the general direction of a book on Neanderthals, then realized it was almost time to go and I hadn't even gotten dressed yet. I'm sure I did something at some point. Maybe.
By the way, the pronunciation is Knee-AND-er-tall, because I'm part German and I say so. (Although apparently Knee-AND-er-thall is acceptable for non-Germans...)
Which, by the way, is the epitome of lazy naming, since "thal" means "valley" in German, and the first Neanderthal was found in Neander Valley in Germany. Nothing like the giraffe, which is named camelopardis, get it, cause it looks like a long-necked camel, right, with leopard spots? Get it?
But neanderthalensis? That's almost but not quite on par with naming your dog Perro or your dragon Draco or your lion Simba...

I do find it funny, however, that we named the horse Equus ferus, and then we domesticated it and it's not really feral anymore, so we're gonna call it Equus ferus caballus. In my mind, it should be the wild horse that should be named Equus caballus ferus, since we're calling it a feral horse, and we don't really call them domesticated horses anymore, being that there aren't that many wild horses around anymore.