I know another English word that comes from Indonesian, as my friend from there likes to proudly tell everyone, "Orangutan". The original meaning is something like "the man of the jungle". I found it really interesting since it's the same word in Spanish, so basically this word has come all the way around the world.
Though TBF a "species word" is a bit of a cheat, since I'm sure there are many more local species like that where if you know the name it'd be in the foreign language, it's just "orangutan" is a fairly common word compared to more specific species names.
About the rest of the article, agreed, the best relationships I've ever had (friends, flings or girlfriends) have always had that curiosity factor strongly present. Though I guess it depends and you need to be a curious person for you to care about it first? Non-curious people might find curiosity boring or even immature?