Scientists in Serbia said they had named a newly-discovered insect species after tennis star Novak Djokovic due to the bug's 'speed and tenacity'.
BELGRADE - Scientists in Serbia said they had named a newly-discovered insect species after tennis star Novak Djokovic due to the bug's"speed and tenacity".
"It is very quick and eats other small animals," Nikola Vesovic, a professor with Belgrade University's Faculty of Biology, told AFP. He described the insect on Instagram as"a specialised, blind, subterranean ground beetle found in a pit near the town of Ljubovija" in the west of the Balkan country. The team of scientists studying the species named it Duvalius Djokovici after the Serbian tennis ace due to its speed, tenacity, strength and elasticity.
"It is a predator in its underground environment, just as Novak is a kind of predator on the tennis courts," Vesovic explained.Djokovic is widely popular in Serbia and across much of the Balkans, where he frequently appears in public and holds exhibition matches in between his busy international schedule.
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