Citations:irara


 * 1948, American Museum of Natural History, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, page 98:
 * Another mammal that is notably fond of honey is Tayra barbara, which seeks the wild bee colonies in trees for its depredations. The Brazilian name of this animal is "irara," which is derived from two Guarani words, "ira," meaning honey, and "nara," signifying master or lord, thus "lord of the honey"[. ...] Hermann von Ihering (1903, p. 274) had once seen a nest at which an "irara" had bitten in his futile attempts to reach the honey; these beasts of prey are able as a rule to get at the nest only if a large enough hollow in the tree enables them to push forward to it.