Nasobēm
The nasobēm (Nasobema lyricum) , a fictional animal that walks on its noses, is the eponymous hero of a poem by its creator Christian Morgenstern , which appeared in the gallows songs :
The Nasobēm The nasobēm
walks
along on his noses, accompanied
by his child.
It is not yet in the Brehm .
It's not in the Meyer yet .
And not even in the Brockhaus .
It emerged from my Leyer
for the first time.
Since
then,
accompanied by his child,
the nasobes have walked on his noses (as already mentioned) .
The Nasobēm has become a classic example of literary studies of how a high-spirited idea by a poet gave rise to numerous follow-up writings, because it is now a fictitious lexicon article in Meyer's Konversations-Lexikon and Brockhaus and of course also in Wikipedia .
The poem also inspired the well-known German zoologist Gerolf Steiner (under the pseudonym Prof. Dr. Harald Stümpke ) to write the book Bau und Leben der Rhinogradentia , which has been published in several reprints by Gustav Fischer Verlag (now Spektrum Akademischer Verlag ) since 1957 . The nasobemes or nasal striders are presented in detail in anatomy , physiology , ethology , ecology and systematics .
The imaginary animal is described as follows: Species name: Nasobema procedens Mor. (put by Stümpke as Nasobēma lyricum Str. to the Rhinogradentia ). Characteristic: The four-humped nose on which the brown to golden brown and shy animal moves very comfortably, makes it unmistakable. Eyes: dark to night brown, ears and tail invisible to the outside, hind legs somewhat more developed. Height up to 80 cm (of which the cusps around 20%). Occurrence: Central Europe, at the bottom of the sea of air , mainly on meadows, corridors, drifts. Became very rare (extinct?); a recent nasal skull was plowed free in 2005 on the central German loop in the Rippach valley (near the BAB 9). The last specimen of its closest relative, the Nasobema ferox L. , was poached in 1914 in the Upper Lötschtal . Mates all year round, but the hind always sets in March. The calf stands after an hour and after another hour can accompany the mother, who leads it to sexual maturity. Twilight active. Asphodeles are mostly food , but young tatzelworms are also consumed . No natural enemies.
Remarks
- ↑ In: Natur + Kosmos , 2008, H. 4. ( April 1 ), p. 70; see. also the April issue 2009, p. 70. According to Stümpke, on the other hand, it lived on the (now submerged) Heieiei-Achipel, a purely vegetarian diet and carried the young in a bag . Its only natural enemy was the predatory nasobem ( Tyrannonasus imperator St. ). Accordingly, the procedure is probably. in future to be differentiated from Lyricum, and the species already divided when the Paleozoic Pangea continent broke up.
literature
- Christian Morgenstern : All gallows songs . 14th edition. Insel-Taschenbuch number 6, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-458-31706-6 (first edition of the gallows songs by the Bruno Cassirer publishing house , Berlin 1905, with Insel since 1940).
- Harald Stümpke: Construction and life of the Rhinogradentia . Spectrum Academic Publishing House, Heidelberg / Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-8274-1196-3 (afterword by Gerolf Steiner ).
- Rolf Siewing (Ed.): Textbook of Zoology . Systematics, Chapter: Rhinogradentia . 3rd, completely revised edition. tape 2 . G. Fischer , Stuttgart 1985, ISBN 3-437-20299-5 .
