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A Northern Saw Whet Owl doing what Owls do best, and coughs up a pellet. What is a pellet? Well, owls primarily eat smaller mammals, reptiles, amphibians and other birds. These prey items are often swallowed whole. Even so, owls cannot digest all parts of animal like bones, feathers, and fur. Pellets consist of that undigested food material. While it looks like this little bird is defecating from it's mouth, it's not! Pellets are not feces and are usually odorless. They're useful to researchers as they can tell quite a bit about an owls diet. Skulls and other bones are generally not broken during an attack, so prey animals can be easily identified.
The Ballestas Islands form an important wildlife reserve, with over 160 species of marine birds, including Humboldt penguins, cormorants, boobies, pelicans and, occasionally condors. There is also animal life, including sea lions, seals, dolphins, whales and two endangered turtles. The islands are off the coast of the Paracas National Reserve, 240 km south of Lima and are a separate National Reserve by themselves.
The islands surrounding seas are rich in creel, and associated upper food chain fish. They provide a safe breeding ground for sea lions, pelicans and a large variety of bird life.
It is not allowed to disembark in the islands, but boats arrive until the banks of the islands.
The quantity of birds is particularly obvious from the huge amount of guano, covering the red rock of the islands with baked white clay - which, surprisingly enough, used to be Peru’s main industry, used extensively by Europeans for fertiliser. There are still a few guano factories on the islands, which guys live on for two months at a time like oil riggers.
Guano (originates from the Quichua language of the Inca civilization and means "the droppings of sea birds".) is the excrement (feces and urine) of seabirds, bats, and seals. Guano manure is an effective fertilizer and gunpowder ingredient due to its high levels of phosphorus and nitrogen and also its lack of odor. Superphosphate made from guano is used for aerial topdressing. Soil that is deficient in organic matter can be made more productive by addition of this manure.
European Badger - Meles meles
Badgers are short, stout, powerful animals that live in underground 'setts' that can extend well over 50 metres long! Members of the mustelid family (which includes pine martens, otters, polecats, ferrets and the wolverine), the European badgers' range extends from Britain, across Europe and to the middle east.
The badger is one of the UK's most recognised and popular mammals, bringing pleasure to thousands of people and is a living symbol of the British countryside.
In the UK, badgers live in mixed-sex groups of between four and eight animals in underground 'setts'. A social group living together in the same sett is also known as a 'clan'. While badgers tend to live in groups, they do not always act cooperatively with their fellow clan members. Badgers are unique in this way as individuals in a clan will forage for food on their own, unlike other social groups of animals who might hunt together and reap the benefit as a group.
A badger’s sense of smell is a particularly important sense as it plays a vital role in communication. Badgers have several scent glands which produce a variety of odours, used for distributing information like warning signals and mating status.
Scents produced are also used to tighten bonds between social groups, with studies suggesting that clan members have similar scents. Badgers also deposit scents in their feces and will typically defecate in shallow dug pits known as latrines, which are found on territorial boundaries.
Badgers distribute their scent information through techniques known as squat marking (dipping their rear and lifting their tails) and allo-marking (marking each other). Can you identify this behaviour in our video library?
The diet of a badger is extremely varied, with badgers being described by expert Professor Tim Roper as "opportunistic omnivores". Earthworms are the core of the badger's diet, often by as much as 60 per cent. In a single night, an adult badger may eat well over 200 worms!
When conditions are harsh (hard frosts, dry or barren areas of habitat), worms can be scarce. Cleverly, badgers are able to shift to other food items, including snails, slugs and soft fruit like raspberries and fallen blackberries. Badgers will occasionally eat hedgehogs if normal prey items are not abundant - read more about badgers and hedgehogs below.
Badgers mate at almost any time of the year, but due to an unusual reproductive technique, known as delayed implantation, they have only one litter a year. Litter size ranges from one to five cubs, with two or three the more common number. Cubs are born in chambers lined with bedding material that the females (sows) gather and drag into the breeding chamber. Straw, hay, grass, fern are all commonly used, which keep the cubs warm. Most cubs are born in early to mid-February and will emerge above ground at around 12 weeks. At 16 weeks, cubs will be displaying most adult social behaviours, including grooming and scent marking
The serval (Leptailurus serval) is a wild cat native to Africa.
The serval is a slender, medium-sized cat that stands 54-62 cm (21-24 in) at the shoulder and weighs 9-18 kg (20-40 lb). It is characterised by a small head, large ears, a golden-yellow to buff coat spotted and striped with black, and a short, black-tipped tail. The serval has the longest legs of any cat relative to its body size.
The serval is a solitary carnivore and active both by day and at night. It preys on rodents, particularly vlei rats, small birds, frogs, insects, and reptiles, using its sense of hearing to locate prey. It leaps over 2 m (6 ft 7 in) above the ground to land on the prey on its forefeet, and finally kills it with a bite on the neck or the head. Both sexes establish highly overlapping home ranges of 10 to 32 km2 (4 to 12 sq mi), and mark them with feces and saliva.
Having hidden her three very cute kittens, Mamma Serval went hunting and within 30 minutes she managed to catch a vlei rat which it quickly took back to it's very eager and hungry kittens. Captured during a photography safari on a late evening game drive in Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya.
Construído em 1973, o Torre Palace Hotel, fruto do trabalho do libanês Jibran El-Hadj, foi o primeiro Hotel de grande porte a ser contruído no Setor Hoteleiro Norte. Sua localização é uma das mais privilegiadas do país. No centro do eixo monumental, os 140 apartamentos integram o complexo que tem vista para a Torre de TV e a Esplanada dos Ministérios, um dos metros quadrados mais caros do Brasil.
No entanto, o hotel de 40 anos tomou um rumo inesperado. No final de maio de 2013, o estabelecimento recebeu seus últimos hóspedes. Do dia pra noite, ninguém mais poderia fazer check-in. Era o fim de um dos hoteis mais conhecidos da capital. De acordo com a Prefeitura do Setor Comercial Norte, que também administra o Setor Hoteleiro, após a morte de Jibran, em 2000, o hotel passou a ser administrado por 7 herdeiros que teriam entrado em desacordo sobre os rumos do patrimônio.
Completamente desativado, hoje, o antigo Torre Palace Hotel é habitado por moradores de ruas e usuários de drogas. Desde agosto de 2014, o hotel foi sendo depedrado pouco a pouco por quem entrava no local. Tudo o que poderia ser reaproveitado foi arrancado por invasores: portas, portais, janelas, vidraças, pedras de mármore e granito, pias e até mesmo vasos sanitários. Não restou absolutamente nada, além do esqueleto da obra e de seus novos habitantes, que causam medo e geram insegurança aos hóspedes de hotéis vizinhos.
Rômulo Araújo é gerente de um hotel que fica ao lado do Torre Palace. Ele conta que os hóspedes se sentem inseguros com o vizinho e os instrui a não andarem sozinhos pela redondeza durante a noite. Rômulo ainda diz que "a procura pelo hotel diminuiu bastante nos últimos meses. Boa parte dos clientes são moradores fixos, e muitos deles estão se mudando por conta da insegurança".
O acesso ao local é livre. Sem portas, janelas ou barreiras, é possível adentrar o local sem nenhuma dificuldade. Já logo na entrada o cheiro é completamente insuportável. Por todos os cantos é possível encontrar fezes, entulho e muito lixo. O cenário é de completa destruição. A cena remete à algo como a passagem de um tornado ou de um terremoto. Em uma primeira vista, um morador de rua dormia envolto em uma fina coberta verde rasgada, sob a proteção de apenas uma bíblia aberta ao seu lado.
Ao subir os primeiros degraus a cena não é diferente. Destruição, roupas, sapatos, preservativos: tudo ali denunciava a presença de pessoas que passaram recentemente pelo local. Ao subir no primeiro andar, foi possível ver um quarto com um varal e algumas peças de roupas estentidas. Enquanto as gotas pingavam no chão cheio de poeira, panelas com comida fria ambientavam o cheiro do local. Não havia nenhuma pessoa no quarto.
No segundo andar, ao entrar em um dos quartos para registrar as imagens, encontramos um morador de rua deitado em um colchão. Morador do local há 2 semanas, Antônio Pereira, comunicativo e aparentemente alterado, aceitou ser fotografado dos joelhos pra baixo. Segundo Antônio, "de dia é tranquilo, fica pouca gente aqui dentro. É de noite que o bixo pega. Rola droga, rola crack, rola briga [...]". Ao ser questionado sobre sua estadia, Antônio é enfático quando diz "já fumei muito crack, hoje fumo só maconha. Só tô aqui mesmo pra ter um lugar pra passar as noite [sic]. Enquanto ninguém embassa eu vou ficando".
O lugar não é apenas o "paraíso" dos desabrigados. As paredes do antigo hotel abandonado dão lugar à manifestações de arte urbana onde pichachões e grafites dão um pouco de vida ao local. Pichadores e grafiteiros fazem a festa todos os dias. É muito comum encontrar latas de tinta spray jogadas pelos cômodos do hotel abanadonado.
No décimo quarto (e último) andar do edifício, foi possível identificar algo que seria uma espécie de escritório ou biblioteca do hotel. Entre centenas livros, fotos, impressoras, documentos e carcaças de monitores antigos, eu senti a sensação de estar sendo observado por algo ou alguém e isso foi assustador.
No final da reportagem, fomos surpreendidos por 4 viaturas da Polícia Militar. Alegaram ter recebido denúncia de que 2 pessoas teriam entrado no edifício há cerca de 2h e não teriam retornado até então. Ao explicar a situação, tomamos depoimento dos oficiais. De acordo com o Sargento Ferreira, "os PM's fazem patrulhamento, mas alegam que só podem entrar no edifício em casos de flagrante, uma vez que é propriedade particular."
Built over 1973, the Tower Palace Hotel, fruit of labor of the lebanese Jibran El-Hadj, was the first large sized hotel to be build at the Hotel Sector North of Brasília, capital of Brazil. Its location is one of the most privileged in the biggest country of south america. In the center of the capital, the 140 apartments are part of the complex that overlooks the TV Tower, National Congress and the Esplanade of the Ministries, brazilian postcards and one of the most expensive square meters of the country.
However, the 40-year hotel took an unexpected turn. In late May 2013, the property received their last guests. From day to night, no one could check in. It was the end of one of the most known hotels of the capital. According to the City Hall, after the death of Jibran in 2000, the hotel is now managed by seven heirs who reportedly at odds over the direction of the patrimony.
Completely deactivated today, the old Tower Palace Hotel is inhabited by homeless people and drug addicts. Since August 2014, the hotel has been plundered and vandalized bit by bit by them. All that could be reused was removed by invaders: doors, gates, windows, glasses, marble stones, granite stones, sinks and even yet toilet boil. There is nothing left beyond the skeleton of the building and its newer dwellers, that scares and causes insecurity for the guests at nearby hotels.
Rômulo Araújo is manager of a hotel next to Tower Palace. He says the guests feel insecure with the neighbour hotel and instructs them not to walk around there at night. "The demand for the hotel has decreased since last year. Most of the guests are permanent dwellers and many of them are moving due to the insecurity."
With no doors, windows or barriers, it's possible enter the place with no difficulties. At the entrance the smell is completely unbearable. Everywhere you go you can see feces, trash and urine. The scene is utter destruction. Everything over there seems something like after a tornado or an earthquake. In a first glance, one homeless slept wrapped in a torn blanket, under the protection of just an open bible at his side.
Going up the stairs the scene wasn't different. At the first floor, it was possible to see a room with clothes on the line. While the drops dripped on the floor full of dust, pipes of crack and rotten food made the smell of the place unbearable. Destruction, clothes, shoes, condoms and pans: every thing over there revealed the presence of people who have recently passed through the abandoned hotel. There was no one in the room.
On the second floor, when entering a room to take the pictures, I found a homeless on a mattress. Local resident for 2 weeks, Antonio Pereira, communicative and apparently high, has agreed to be photographed from the knees down. According to Antonio, "during the day is quiet, there is few people here. Overnight that the going gets tough. Many people use drugs. People do fight, people stab each other. It's horrible. [...]. When asked about his stay, Antonio says "during a long time I've smoked crack, today I just smoke weed. I'm just right here to have a place to spend the night [sic]"
The abandoned hotel is not only the "paradise" of the addicts and homeless. The walls of the old hotel give way to demonstrations of urban art where graffiti gives a little of life for the building. Taggers and graffiti artists has fun over there everyday. It's common to find spray paint cans over the rooms of the hotel.
On fourteenth (and last) floor of the hotel it was possible to identify something like an office or a library. Among thousands of books, pictures, printers and documents, I've felt the sensation of being watched by something or someone. It was scary.
It was nice out, so I decided to make a snowman. I got all the components, snow for the body, carrot for the nose, prunes for the eyes (I didn't have any coal, so I figured the birds could eat them), and, of course, deer poop for the teeth. Donning my rubber gloves, I assembled the guy and tried a little bit of sun flower seeds for hair. It looked like some sort of concept film of "Frosty The Snowman" filmed by Alfred Hitchcock.
When the bigger birds landed on the carrot nose, it went all Michael Jackson on me and fell out.
As it was a warm day, the snowman is just now a large lump of melting snow, seed hulls and feces from a variety of different critters. Isn't winter just grand!
Taken in New Jersey, USA
© Steve Byland 2008 all rights reserved
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The wonderfully textured surface of the Mesquite Dunes, warmed by sunrise light, leads the eye south toward the rugged Panamint Mountains, Death Valley National Park, California. Clumps of Creosote Bush (Larrea tridentata) and bright fractured geometric hardpan deposits are visible in the foreground hollow.
I read that following the recent government shutdown, which happened to occur during the height of Death Valley's tourist season, the Park was heavily visited nonetheless. Without Park Ranger supervision, it turns out that some of these intrepid individuals began feeding wild coyotes for entertainment. Perhaps more distressingly, when Rangers finally returned they catalogued over 1,500 deposits of human feces in and around the more oft-visited locales. Whatever else can be said about America, we sure know how to keep it classy.
I explored the interior of this house for about 2 hours. Little did I know that decades worth of dust and rat feces would make me so sick!
And sick I was, for well over a month.
I now wear a mask.
Alabama
The serval (Leptailurus serval) is a wild cat native to Africa.
The serval is a slender, medium-sized cat that stands 54-62 cm (21-24 in) at the shoulder and weighs 9-18 kg (20-40 lb). It is characterised by a small head, large ears, a golden-yellow to buff coat spotted and striped with black, and a short, black-tipped tail. The serval has the longest legs of any cat relative to its body size.
The serval is a solitary carnivore and active both by day and at night. It preys on rodents, particularly vlei rats, small birds, frogs, insects, and reptiles, using its sense of hearing to locate prey. It leaps over 2 m (6 ft 7 in) above the ground to land on the prey on its forefeet, and finally kills it with a bite on the neck or the head. Both sexes establish highly overlapping home ranges of 10 to 32 km2 (4 to 12 sq mi), and mark them with feces and saliva.
Having hidden her three very cute kittens, Mamma Serval went hunting and within 30 minutes she managed to catch a vlei rats which it quickly took back to it's very eager and hungry kittens. Captured during a photography safari on a late evening game drive in Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya.
**dear flickr friends a nasty desert bug has me down and out -damsure not in beverly hills! Ill be back among you real soon**
xo
View majamom's mapTaken in (See more photos here)Roadrunners are ground cuckoos, are any of about 15 species of birds constituting the subfamily Neomorphinae of the Cuckoo Family (Cuculidae), noted for terrestrial habits. There are 11 New World species, 3 of which lay their eggs in the nests of other birds.
Other ground cuckoos include the Morococcyx erythropygus, a species widespread in Central America and 5 species of Neomorphus, found from Costa Rica to Bolivia.Three species of the very large Carpococcyx, are found in Southeast Asia and acquire a length of 24 inches.
Comparisons
The two species of Roadrunners include the Lesser Roadrunner (G. velox) a slightly smaller, buffier and less streaky bird, of Mexico and Central America, which grows to a length of 18 inches.
Description
The legendary Roadrunner is famous for its distinctive appearance, its ability to eat rattlesnakes and its preference for scooting across the American deserts, as popularized in Warner Bros. cartoons.
The Roadrunner is a large, black-and-white, mottled ground bird with a distinctive head crest. It has strong feet, a long, white-tipped tail and an oversized bill.
It ranges in length from 20 to 24 inches from the tip of its tail to the end of its beak. It is a member of the Cuckoo Family (Cuculidae), characterized by feet with 2 forward toes and 2 behind.
When the Roadrunner senses danger or is traveling downhill, it flies, revealing short, rounded wings with a white crescent. But it cannot keep its large body airborne for more than a few seconds, and so prefers walking or running (up to 17 miles per hour) usually with a clownish gait.
Vocalization
The Roadrunner makes a series of 6 to 8, low, dovelike coos dropping in pitch, as well as a clattering sound by rolling mandibles together.
Tail
The Roadrunner has a long, graduated tail carried at an upward angle.
Legs
The Roadrunner has long stout legs.
Behavior
The Roadrunner is uniquely suited to a desert environment by a number of physiological and behavioral adaptations
Its carnivorous habits offer it a large supply of very moist food
It reabsorbs water from its feces before excretion
A nasal gland eliminates excess salt, instead of using the urinary tract like most birds
It reduces its activity 50% during the heat of midday
Its extreme quickness allows it to snatch a humming bird or dragonfly from midair.
Habitat
The Roadrunner inhabits open, flat or rolling terrain with scattered cover of dry brush, chaparral or other desert scrub.
Food & Hunting
The Roadrunner feeds almost exclusively on other animals, including insects, scorpions, lizards, snakes, rodents and other birds. Up to 10 % of its winter diet may consist of plant material due to the scarcity of desert animals at that time of the year.
Because of its lightening quickness, the Roadrunner is one of the few animals that preys upon rattlesnakes. Using its wings like a matador's cape, it snaps up a coiled rattlesnake by the tail, cracks it like a whip and repeatedly slams its head against the ground till dead.
It then swallows its prey whole, but is often unable to swallow the entire length at one time. This does not stop the Roadrunner from its normal routine. It will continue to meander about with the snake dangling from its mouth, consuming another inch or two as the snake slowly digests.
Breeding
When spring arrives, the male Roadrunner, in addition to acquiring food for himself, offers choice morsels to a female as an inducement to mating. He usually dances around her while she begs for food, then gives her the morsel after breeding briefly.
Both parents collect the small sticks used for building a shallow, saucer-like nest, but the female actually constructs it in a bush, cactus or small tree. She then lays from 2 to 12 white eggs over a period of 3 days, which results in staggered hatching. . Incubation is from 18-20 days and is done by either parent, though preferably the male, because the nocturnally incubating males maintain normal body temperature.
The first to hatch often crowd out the late-arriving runts, which are sometimes eaten by the parents. Usually only 3 or 4 young are finally fledged from the nest after about 18 days. These remain near the adults for up to 2 more weeks before dispersing to the surrounding desert.
In the Sonoran and Mojave deserts of California where there is only one rainy season, Roadrunners nest in Spring, the only time there is abundant prey to raise a brood. In the Sonoran Desert of Arizona, they breed again in August or September after summer rains increase their food sources
At first glance, this might look like some sort of weird ladybird - but it isn't.
Instead, the six-spotted pot beetle (Cryptocephalus sexpunctatus) is something way quirkier and more interesting.
Let's start with the scientific name, Cryptocephalus - head hider. This is because they like to keep their heads hidden underneath the pronotum.
Next, why "pot beetle"? Well, the females do this rather peculiar thing where they hold each egg they're laying with their rearmost pair of legs and then coat it with a mixture of a waxy substance and her own droppings (known as "frass") in a process with the wonderful name of "scatoshelling" until the egg is encased in a little flask - or "pot".
This process can take ten minutes - per egg - and when she's done she drops it to the ground (the Swedish name for these translates into "fall beetles" because of the fall the eggs make).
The shell made from feces unsurprisingly deters predators and when the larvae hatch they actually keep the flask like a little sleeping bag for protection. Somehow the larvae manage to extend the pot using their own feces as they grow so they can keep using it and still fit in it. It can take as long as three years for a Cryptocephalus larvae to complete its development.
I found this one on a leaf near Härnösand, Sweden, but I didn't have a clue about all of this then so I didn't look underneath the plant for any pots.
It stayed nice and still though which let me take this shot which is a focus stack made from four exposures at 3.3:1 magnification and combined using Zerene Stacker.
Monkey Temple, Galta Kund, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, November 2018
More than 200 monkeys find shelter in the temple surroundings. Flowers and incense do not overpower the overwhelming presence of filth. Mounds of rubbish float in temple pounds. Human and animal feces, rotting food, plastic and all kind of waste surround each temple.
Exploring this abandoned farmhouse was definitely one of the highlights from last year, it's also probably one of my top ten favourite houses explored to date. This modest looking house sits on over 17 acres of land and is home to three other out buildings. A few years ago the home was listed for $899,900, it sat on the market for a little less than a year before being removed, the property was described as being sold for the land value only.
This house became to be known as Sandra's Room because of one bedroom within the house that belonged to a young girl named Sandra. Most of the home was in various stages of decay with peeling paint, raccoon feces and holes in the ceiling but Sandra's room, at the time, was pristine and probably looked much the same way it did when the house was still active.
The home is considered to be a time capsule because when the owners vacated the premises all of their personal belongings along with furniture was left behind.
Today we take a look at what the first floor has to offer.
Link to the video:
©James Hackland
So busy and faithful the work of the pair, now the nest is built and the little ones are there, caring for them from first light to last. Starting and landing on the nest every few minutes.
So treusorgend und fleissig dieses Paar ,von früh bis spät fliegen sie das Nest im Minutentakt mitfahren an.
Kałów – wieś w Polsce, dawne miasto, położona w województwie łódzkim, w powiecie poddębickim, w gminie Poddębice. W 2011 roku zamieszkiwało tu 162 mieszkańców w 53 domach. Przy wsi znajdują się od strony południowej i północnej kompleksy lasów prywatnych z przewagą sosny o pow. około 1000 ha. Jak podają źródła, już w 1814 roku las był własnością poszczególnych mieszkańców wsi Kałów; była to zwykle szlachta zagrodowa. Kompleks ten graniczy z kompleksem lasów państwowych leśnictwa Mianów, w którym znajduje się rezerwat leśny torfowiskowy o pow. 5,87 ha. Torfowiska z rozległymi łąkami znajdują się również w dolinie rzeki Bełdówki. Tereny na południe od wsi wraz z doliną rzeki Bełdówki, bagnami i lasem leżą w obrębie „Puczniewsko-Grotnickiego Obszaru Chronionego Krajobrazu”. Pierwsza wzmianka pisana o wsi pojawia się w 1387 roku. Była to własność szlachecka rodu Kałowskich, z którego wywodzi się Jarosław Kałowski herbu Nagodzice, łowczy sieradzki w latach 1453-1465. Prawa miejskie Kałów uzyskał przed rokiem 1592. Nie ustalono, w którym roku Kałów utracił prawa miejskie. Prawdopodobnie na początku XIX wieku, gdy mieszkańcy masowo przemieszczali się do pobliskiej Łodzi w związku z jej przemysłowym rozwojem.
Jeśli ktoś jest zainteresowany ciekawostkami historycznymi, polecam pełen artykuł w wikipedii pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ka%C5%82%C3%B3w.
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Kałów (coming from the Polish word "kał" - feces) is a village in central Poland, in 2011 there were 162 inhabitants.
Kałów was mentioned for the first time in 1387 and it became a city before 1592, it's not clear though, when Kałów lost its city rights. It probably happened in the 19th century, when many farmers moved to the growing industrial city of Łódź.
(Unknown), Family:Sepsidae
4mm dipteran fly, shot with diffused internal flash.
Sepsidae are a moderately large, cosmopolitan family of saprophagous flies with species recorded from all zoogeographic regions. Most species have slender, ant-like profiles, ranging from 2-6mm in length, with bead-like heads, petiolate abdomina and relatively few setae. Sepsids are active flies, with a characteristic rapid gait accompanied by lateral wing waving. The majority of sepsids are attracted to dung and/or carrion. Sepsid courtship is a rigorous affair, with shaking, leg taps, sternite brush stimulation, and even 'kissing'.
Wikipedia: The Sepsidae are a family of flies, commonly called the black scavenger flies or ensign flies. Over 300 species are described worldwide. They are usually found around dung or decaying plant and animal material. Many species resemble ants, having a "waist" and glossy black body. Many Sepsidae have a curious wing-waving habit made more apparent by dark patches at the wing end.
Many species have a very wide distribution, reflecting the coprophagous habit of most Sepsidae. Some species have been spread over large territories in association with livestock. Adult flies are found mostly on mammal excrement, including that of humans (less often on other rotting organic matter), where eggs are laid and larvae develop, and on nearby vegetation, carrion, fermenting tree sap, and shrubs and herbs.
Many Sepsidae apparently play an important biological role as decomposers of mammal and other animal excrement. Some species may have a limited hygienic importance because of their association with human feces. Others are useful tools in forensic entomology.
There were 3 little Kits waiting on food, this one was waiting patiently for Mum. Socially, the fox communicates with body language and a variety of vocalizations. Its vocal range is quite large and its noises vary from a distinctive three-yip “lost call” to a shriek reminiscent of a human scream. It also communicates with scent, marking food and territorial boundary lines with urine and feces.
Varanasi (Inde) - Je suis dans une barque pour assister aux ablutions matinales des habitants de la ville sainte et des pèlerins-touristes. Malgré l'importante pollution des eaux du fleuve - dont les concentrations de matières fécales sont 66 fois supérieures aux normes autorisées - et les cadavres mal incinérés qui flottent, les Indiens n'hésitent pas à s'y laver quotidiennement. Selon eux, ils ne craignent rien ; ils sont sous la protection de Shivâ. Moi, je ne m’y « laverais » pas les mains.
Under Shiva's protection
Varanasi (India) - I am in a boat to attend the morning ablutions of the inhabitants of the holy city and of the pilgrims-tourists. Despite the significant pollution of the waters of the river - the concentrations of feces of which are 66 times higher than the authorized standards - and the poorly incinerated corpses which float, the Indians do not hesitate to wash there daily. According to them, they fear nothing; they are under Shiva's protection.
Since house flies regularly feed and lay eggs on feces, garbage, decaying animals, and other filthy places, they can transfer disease-ridden microbes when they land on humans, household surfaces, and food that has been left out. Because of this, many fly species are known to spread disease to humans. In fact, the common house fly is suspected of transmitting at least 65 diseases to people, still, they are very photogenic.
Vincent: Want some bacon?
Jules: No man, I don't eat pork.
Vincent: Are you Jewish?
Jules: Nah, I ain't Jewish, I just don't dig on swine, that's all.
Vincent: Why not?
Jules: Pigs are filthy animals. I don't eat filthy animals.
Vincent: Bacon tastes gooood. Pork chops taste gooood.
Jules: Hey, sewer rat may taste like pumpkin pie, but I'd never know 'cause I wouldn't eat the filthy motherfucker. Pigs sleep and root in shit. That's a filthy animal. I ain't eat nothin' that ain't got sense enough to disregard its own feces.
quoted from Pulp Fiction (1994)
Me: "Did You Hear About Phil, Who Works The Primate House At The Zoo?"
Chuck: "No."
Me: "Yeah, I Guess A Monkey Attacked Him By Throwing Feces At Him."
Chuck: "Really?"
Me: "Yeah, Phil Got Rushed To The Hospital With Turd Degree Burns."
Chuck: "Why? Just...Why?"
"Snails are often the unsung heroes of ecosystems! Snails are essential to the decomposition process by eating decaying and dead vegetation and leaving behind nutrient-rich feces in the soil. Also, once snails have died, their bodies and shells decompose and provide a source of calcium to the habitat. Their relationship to the soil is also helpful to us in other ways. By paying attention to the snail population of a place, we can learn what is to come for certain ecosystems. Snails can act as an indicator species as they are very sensitive to soil changes. For example, less snails in an area that previously had more could mean there is an ecological issue like the soil becoming more acidic. Keeping an eye on populations of species at risk like snails is one of the many ways we can monitor ecosystems in the park to help inform conservation projects. "
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parks.canada.ca/pn-np/on/pelee/nature/faune-wildlife/esca...
Collected eggs, bed bug nymphs, feces from harborage on mattress. Hard to see on mattress, but easier once taped, collected and photographed (and zoomed in). L.Sorkin
Grand Canyon National Park
The U.S. Guano Corporation mined bat feces at Bat Cave on the north side of the river during the 1940s and 1950s. The feces were broken out of the cave with rakes and hoes, then transported via a tramway system thousands of feet out of the canyon. Eventually, by the 1960s the cave was “mined out” and the U.S. Guano Corporation had moved out of the canyon but left much of their infrastructure behind.
In 1962, a jet traveling from Nellis Air Base clipped a cable supported by the towers. Part of the jet’s wing tip was sheared off during the event, but fortunately the pilot was able to land the craft safely back at Nellis.
The towers that supported the tram system are still standing and are plainly visible on both sides of the canyon.
This spot is called "Guano Point".
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No matter where I went in Viet-Nam, the same little guys were there, standing, watching. Some had mothers. Teenagers, for the most part, and most were prostitutes.
The prostitutes lived in an area just outside Tan Son Nhut Airbase called “Dog Patch”, a bunch of aluminum and tin huts made from beer and soft drink cans. They cut the cans open and flattened them out. They hammered them onto a frame of some kind, and Viola!
Anywhere there were American troops, there were prostitutes. And all manner of disease, filth, and vermin were everywhere. especially in the the alleyways. There were no toilets, no water, and all of Dog Patch smelled of body odor, unclean sex, feces, and vomit.
GI’s frequented the slums of Dog Patch. asking for the same girl most of the time. If he has been with her before, then he probably has what she has. And if there were a medical cure, the GI was very lucky.
The troops drank hot local beer called Ba Mui Ba, which is Vietnamese for “33”. Occasionally a horse hair worm could be found in your Ba Mui Ba bottle.
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The next morning the little guys were back on the side of the road watching all the troops, with the long, long lines of US Military vehicles bogged down in their own traffic jams. Then the children worked the GI’s for whatever they could get. Canned food, cigarettes, beer, soft drinks, and candy.
I have a flight up to Da-Nang tomorrow morning. I'll be there for a couple of weeks. And there will be the same little guys....waiting for me.
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in the open. Here in the city it's not always about not having access to basic facilities. Why are there no women? For the hard-living male earners of the fishing communities this is about "Whose beach is it anyway?", about fairness, habitual rights and, of course, education.
The abandoned "suicidal cottage" at The Ridges Asylum, where suicidal patients were kept, and kept watch over. This building was also an active TB ward for some time.
Creeeeeepy writing, carved into a small nook in the exercise yard, where a patient could certainly work unnoticed. The smears were put there by hand, and could be dried blood, very very dark mud (but not likely), chocolate or feces...it's hard to say.
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[Edited text from Ohiolost.org]
Ridges Lunatic Asylum
On the campus of Ohio University; Athens, OH.
The hospital was in operation from 1874 to 1993. Construction of the facility began in 1868 and the hospital opened on January 9, 1874. For many years, the hospital was Athens, Ohio's largest employer. The state hospital was eventually decommissioned and the property deeded to Ohio University. Appalachian Behavioral Healthcare now administers a psychiatric hospital in Athens, within view of the original Athens Lunatic Asylum. The history of the hospital documents some of the now discredited theories of the causes of mental illness, as well as the practice of harmful treatments, such as lobotomy. Disappointments, religious excitement, seduction and masturbation are listed as causes of insanity in the early annual reports of the hospital.
The old hospital was featured in an episode of the Fox Family Channel television show "Scariest Places On Earth," which claimed Athens, Ohio was the 13th most haunted place on Earth.
One of the ghost stories that lingers with the site comes out of a very true story about a profoundly mentally delayed woman named "Margaret," who, in 1978, wandered into an unheated and abandoned portion of the asylum. She got locked in, and, unable to scream for help, died of exposure. When she was found, she was completely naked, with her clothes in a neatly-folded pile beside her body. Due to the sun's direct exposure and five weeks of decomposition, her body left a stain which could not be removed and could still be seen if the building weren't locked tight.
I watched this Red-shouldered hawk (Buteo lineatus) through some small branches for a bit before it had had enough. Seeing a hawk at the Springfield Nature Center is always a treat.
I don't know if this is TMI but the Cornell Labs says this: "By the time they are five days old, nestling Red-shouldered Hawks can shoot their feces over the edge of their nest. Bird poop on the ground is a sign of an active nest."
The Ganges is a trans-boundary river of Asia which flows through India and Bangladesh. The 2,525-kilometre-long river rises in the western Himalayas in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. It flows south and east through the Gangetic plain of North India, receiving the right-bank tributary, the Yamuna, which also rises in the western Indian Himalayas, and several left-bank tributaries from Nepal that account for the bulk of its flow. In West Bengal state, India, a feeder canal taking off from its right bank diverts 50% of its flow southwards, artificially connecting it to the Hooghly River. The Ganges continues into Bangladesh, its name changing to the Padma. It is then joined by the Jamuna, the lower stream of the Brahmaputra, and eventually the Meghna, forming the major estuary of the Ganges Delta, and emptying into the Bay of Bengal. The Ganges–Brahmaputra–Meghna system is the second-largest river on earth by discharge.
The main stem of the Ganges begins at the town of Devprayag,at the confluence of the Alaknanda, which is the source stream in hydrology on account of its greater length, and the Bhagirathi, which is considered the source stream in Hindu mythology.
The Ganges is a lifeline to hundreds of millions of people who live in its basin and depend on it for their daily needs. It has been important historically, with many former provincial or imperial capitals such as Pataliputra, Kannauj, Sonargaon, Dhaka, Bikrampur, Kara, Munger, Kashi, Patna, Hajipur, Kanpur, Delhi, Bhagalpur, Murshidabad, Baharampur, Kampilya, and Kolkata located on its banks or those of its tributaries and connected waterways. The river is home to approximately 140 species of fish, 90 species of amphibians, and also reptiles and mammals, including critically endangered species such as the gharial and South Asian river dolphin. The Ganges is the most sacred river to Hindus. It is worshipped as the goddess Ganga in Hinduism.
The Ganges is threatened by severe pollution. This not only poses a danger to humans but also to many species of animals. The levels of fecal coliform bacteria from human waste (feces and urine) in the river near Varanasi are more than 100 times the Indian government's official limit. The Ganga Action Plan, an environmental initiative to clean up the river, has been considered a failure which is variously attributed to corruption, a lack of will in the government, poor technical expertise, poor environmental planning,and a lack of support from religious authorities.
Stripeless Tree Frog, Hyla meridionalis
The Ganges is a trans-boundary river of Asia which flows through India and Bangladesh. The 2,525-kilometre-long (1,569 mi) river rises in the western Himalayas in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. It flows south and east through the Gangetic plain of North India, receiving the right-bank tributary, the Yamuna, which also rises in the western Indian Himalayas, and several left-bank tributaries from Nepal that account for the bulk of its flow. In West Bengal state, India, a feeder canal taking off from its right bank diverts 50% of its flow southwards, artificially connecting it to the Hooghly River. The Ganges continues into Bangladesh, its name changing to the Padma. It is then joined by the Jamuna, the lower stream of the Brahmaputra, and eventually the Meghna, forming the major estuary of the Ganges Delta, and emptying into the Bay of Bengal. The Ganges–Brahmaputra–Meghna system is the second-largest river on earth by discharge.
The main stem of the Ganges begins at the town of Devprayag, at the confluence of the Alaknanda, which is the source stream in hydrology on account of its greater length, and the Bhagirathi, which is considered the source stream in Hindu mythology.
The Ganges is a lifeline to hundreds of millions of people who live in its basin and depend on it for their daily needs. It has been important historically, with many former provincial or imperial capitals such as Pataliputra, Kannauj, Sonargaon, Dhaka, Bikrampur, Kara, Munger, Kashi, Patna, Hajipur, Kanpur, Delhi, Bhagalpur, Murshidabad, Baharampur, Kampilya, and Kolkata located on its banks or those of its tributaries and connected waterways. The river is home to approximately 140 species of fish, 90 species of amphibians, and also reptiles and mammals, including critically endangered species such as the gharial and South Asian river dolphin. The Ganges is the most sacred river to Hindus. It is worshipped as the goddess Ganga in Hinduism.
The Ganges is threatened by severe pollution. This not only poses a danger to humans but also to many species of animals. The levels of fecal coliform bacteria from human waste (feces and urine) in the river near Varanasi are more than 100 times the Indian government's official limit. The Ganga Action Plan, an environmental initiative to clean up the river, has been considered a failure which is variously attributed to corruption, a lack of will in the government, poor technical expertise, poor environmental planning, and a lack of support from religious authorities.
The Chocolate Hills are a geological (Karst/limestone) formation on the island of Bohol. There are at least 1,260 hills. They are covered in green grass that turns brown (like chocolate) during the dry season, hence the name. As it is in many cultures, there are legends explaining the formation:
The first tells the story of two feuding giants who hurled rocks, boulders, and sand at each other. The fighting lasted for days, and exhausted the two giants. In their exhaustion, they forgot about their feud and became friends, but when they left they forgot to clean up the mess they had made during their battle.
A more romantic legend tells of a giant named Arogo who was extremely powerful and youthful. Arogo fell in love with Aloya, who was a simple mortal. Aloya's death caused Arogo much pain and misery, and in his sorrow he could not stop crying. When his tears dried, the Chocolate Hills were formed.
The third legend tells of a town being plagued by a giant carabao, who ate all of their crops. Finally having had enough, the townsfolk took all of their spoiled food and placed it in such a way that the carabao would not miss it. Sure enough, the carabao ate it, but his stomach couldn't handle the spoiled food, so he defecated, leaving behind him a mound of feces, until he had emptied his stomach of the food. The feces then dried, forming the Chocolate Hills.
Whichever is true, I don't mind.I like a good story.
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European Badger - Meles meles
Badgers are short, stout, powerful animals that live in underground 'setts' that can extend well over 50 metres long! Members of the mustelid family (which includes pine martens, otters, polecats, ferrets and the wolverine), the European badgers' range extends from Britain, across Europe and to the middle east.
The badger is one of the UK's most recognised and popular mammals, bringing pleasure to thousands of people and is a living symbol of the British countryside.
In the UK, badgers live in mixed-sex groups of between four and eight animals in underground 'setts'. A social group living together in the same sett is also known as a 'clan'. While badgers tend to live in groups, they do not always act cooperatively with their fellow clan members. Badgers are unique in this way as individuals in a clan will forage for food on their own, unlike other social groups of animals who might hunt together and reap the benefit as a group.
A badger’s sense of smell is a particularly important sense as it plays a vital role in communication. Badgers have several scent glands which produce a variety of odours, used for distributing information like warning signals and mating status.
Scents produced are also used to tighten bonds between social groups, with studies suggesting that clan members have similar scents. Badgers also deposit scents in their feces and will typically defecate in shallow dug pits known as latrines, which are found on territorial boundaries.
Badgers distribute their scent information through techniques known as squat marking (dipping their rear and lifting their tails) and allo-marking (marking each other). Can you identify this behaviour in our video library?
The diet of a badger is extremely varied, with badgers being described by expert Professor Tim Roper as "opportunistic omnivores". Earthworms are the core of the badger's diet, often by as much as 60 per cent. In a single night, an adult badger may eat well over 200 worms!
When conditions are harsh (hard frosts, dry or barren areas of habitat), worms can be scarce. Cleverly, badgers are able to shift to other food items, including snails, slugs and soft fruit like raspberries and fallen blackberries. Badgers will occasionally eat hedgehogs if normal prey items are not abundant - read more about badgers and hedgehogs below.
Badgers mate at almost any time of the year, but due to an unusual reproductive technique, known as delayed implantation, they have only one litter a year. Litter size ranges from one to five cubs, with two or three the more common number. Cubs are born in chambers lined with bedding material that the females (sows) gather and drag into the breeding chamber. Straw, hay, grass, fern are all commonly used, which keep the cubs warm. Most cubs are born in early to mid-February and will emerge above ground at around 12 weeks. At 16 weeks, cubs will be displaying most adult social behaviours, including grooming and scent marking.
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Dream of BUTTERFLY WITH
Papilio xuthus, also known as the Asian swallowtail, Chinese yellow swallowtail or the Xuthus swallowtail, is a yellow-colored. medium to large sized swallowtail butterfly found in northeast Asia, Northern Myanmar, southern China, Taiwan, Korean Peninsula, Japan (from Hokkaidō to Yaeyama Islands), Siberia, and the Hawaiian Islands.
It mates multiple times in its life, leading to an increased genetic diversity in its young. It is preyed upon by a host of organisms, including the tree cricket Oecanthus longicauda, ant Lasius niger, and wasps (Polistes and Trogus mactator). P. xuthus utilizes color vision and color constancy while foraging for plants of the family Rutaceae.
It is common and not threatened.[1] Papilio xuthus is common in urban, suburban, woods, and orange orchards. The flight period of the butterfly is from May to August.
Males use both physical and visual cues to attract mates during the breeding season. Females of the species regularly mate with multiple partners. After mating, females use habitat and food quality to determine where they will oviposit their eggs.
The Asian Swallowtail is a mid-sized, yellow, prominently-tailed butterfly. It has a wingspan of 45 to 55 mm. Its normal color pattern consists of a black pattern on a yellow background.
Wing coloration is sexually dimorphic, with females showing broader proximal marginal bands in the hind wing. Blue-iridesecent and orange scales separate the black bands on the hind wing. The black bands also run in stripes of varying thickness along the fore wing.
The young caterpillar mimics bird feces and has a white and brown spot on its head. As they mature, caterpillars develop a light green body color with brown spots.
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At first glance, this might look like some sort of weird ladybird - but it isn't.
Instead, the six-spotted pot beetle (Cryptocephalus sexpunctatus) is something way quirkier and more interesting.
Let's start with the scientific name, Cryptocephalus - head hider. This is because they like to keep their heads hidden underneath the pronotum.
Next, why "pot beetle"? Well, the females do this rather peculiar thing where they hold each egg they're laying with their rearmost pair of legs and then coat it with a mixture of a waxy substance and her own droppings (known as "frass") in a process with the wonderful name of "scatoshelling" until the egg is encased in a little flask - or "pot".
This process can take ten minutes - per egg - and when she's done she drops it to the ground (the Swedish name for these translates into "fall beetles" because of the fall the eggs make).
The shell made from feces unsurprisingly deters predators and when the larvae hatch they actually keep the flask like a little sleeping bag for protection. Somehow the larvae manage to extend the pot using their own feces as they grow so they can keep using it and still fit in it. It can take as long as three years for a Cryptocephalus larvae to complete its development.
I found this one on a leaf near Härnösand, Sweden, but I didn't have a clue about all of this then so I didn't look underneath the plant for any pots.
For a four exposure stack at 3.3:1 mag, check out part 1 here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/51238511108/
Part 2 is a two-exposure focus stack at 2.2:1 here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/51418342309/
Explored! Highest position: 57 on Wednesday, October 14, 2009
More at the website: www.aaronbrownphotos.com/Exhibit
The little lady and I set off on another adventure: this time to Seoul Grand Park Zoo! It's huge. I mean HUGE. You have to take a trolley car to get there. We also went on an especially hot day, so you can imagine the smells we endured. Monkeys are generally cute, unless they're flinging feces... or locked up in the Sing Sing of zoos with the longing eyes of a child sans legs watching all the other kids run in the park. i just wanted to give it a hug.
From Wikipedia:
Seoul Grand Park is a park complex to the south of Seoul, South Korea, in the city of Gwacheon (과천시).
Seoul Grand Park has numerous facilities, including:
* Hills and hiking trails
* Seoul Grand Park Zoo
* Children's Zoo
* A rose garden
* SeoulLand amusement park
* Seoul Museum of Modern Art
The attractions all have separate admission fees. Line 4 of the Seoul Metropolitan Subway stops at Seoul Grand Park Station. A free shuttle bus from the station visits the art museum and upper park entrance.
Thanks for checking it out!
Vendo CD de Marilyn Manson: Smells Like Children de 1995.
La caja tiene algun rasguño pero el CD esta perfecto.
CANCIONES:
1.- The hands of small children
2.- Diary of a dope friend
3.- S****y Chicken gang bang
4.- Kiddie Grinder (Remix)
5.- Sympathy for the parents
6.- Sweet dreams (are made of this)
7.- Everlastin c***sucker (remix)
8.- F*** Frankie
9.- I put a spell on you
10.- May cause discoloration of the urine of feces
11.- Scabs, guns and peanut butter
12.- Dance of the dope hats (Remix)
13.- White trash (Remixed by Tony F. wiggins)
14.- Dancing with One-Legged...
15.- Rock 'n' Roll nigger
Iguanas of Florida
While most areas in the United States are more temperate and don’t make great homes for most iguana species, Florida is something of an anomaly. Since its subtropical climate makes it warm and humid year-round, Florida has become an ideal home to many species of reptiles, amphibians, and other animals we normally see in distant, isolated rainforests and on tropical islands. But what iguanas in Florida are actually native to the area? Additionally, are there any invasive species?
There are no iguana species that are actually native to Florida. Instead, the three main species currently living throughout the state are invasive species. Humans brought these lizards to Florida from nearby islands via cargo ships and independent releases throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Eventually, their populations exploded. Florida just happens to be an ideal environment for iguanas, with its warm, humid weather and diverse plant and animal life for the massive lizards to feed on.
Florida’s three main invasive iguana species are the black spiny-tailed iguana, the Mexican spiny-tailed iguana, and, of course, the green iguana. None of them are originally native to Florida. However, over time, they’ve all become misunderstood yet highly invasive nuisances, wreaking havoc on the state’s plant and animal life and causing serious damage to both man-made and natural structures with their feces and elaborate burrows.
As we look at each of these species in a bit more detail, we’ll be able to understand why they are so damaging to Florida’s ecosystems, exactly how each one was introduced to the area, and what sort of measures state officials are taking to reverse the lizards’ environmental impact as humanely as possible.
For more info: a-z-animals.com/blog/iguanas-in-florida-what-species-are-...
These bright orange lichens are found only where the nitrogen-rich runoff from bird or mammal waste provides the nutrition they need.
From the National Park Service website:
Lichens in the genus Xanthoria are easily recognized by their bright orange or yellow coloration. These are usually seen growing on rock faces around the Seward Peninsula, often where birds of prey hang out. Xanthoria love nitrogen-rich environments - and incidentally, bird feces contain high levels of nitrogen, so it can be used as an indicator of where you might find a raptor roost or nesting area.
first order of business after wrapping the shoot: a shower.
i was unfortunately seated in a mess of animal feces, or whatever remained that could not be swept away.
and the events that followed: brownie baking, movie going (cedar rapids. laughs.), and dinner dating with an old friend. :)
Forgive my title, I tried to keep it on the light side without sounding too gross.
Earlier in he series I showed butterflies on a gravel path, where they would get minerals. Butterflies will land on and eat animal droppings to get nutrients, minerals and salt. Here there are four different butterfly species and a couple of blue bottle flies dining at the All you can eat Dung Diner!
EDIT: below Don Delaney has kindly listed the names of the four Butterflies.
A yellow cement pillar has become a popular perching place for the seagulls, so much so that it has gained white streaks from the bird feces.
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Photographed at the Watson family cottage on Peninsula Lake, near Huntsville, Ontario, Canada (in the Muskoka region)
* 230 km by road north of Toronto
400 mm lens on Nikon Z7 mirrorless camera body
Here is another view of the same little fellow:
www.flickr.com/photos/97587627@N06/51687554768
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Wikipedia:
"Chipmunks are small, striped rodents of the family Sciuridae. Chipmunks are found in North America, with the exception of the Siberian chipmunk which is found primarily in Asia. ...
The common name originally may have been spelled "chitmunk", from the native Odawa (Ottawa) word jidmoonh, meaning "red squirrel" ... in the 1830s they were also referred to as "chip squirrels", probably in reference to the sound they make.
Chipmunks have an omnivorous diet primarily consisting of seeds, nuts and other fruits, and buds.[11][12] They also commonly eat grass, shoots, and many other forms of plant matter, as well as fungi, insects and other arthropods, small frogs, worms, and bird eggs. They will also occasionally eat newly hatched baby birds.
Eastern chipmunks, the largest of the chipmunks, mate in early spring and again in early summer, producing litters of four or five young twice each year.[11] Western chipmunks breed only once a year. The young emerge from the burrow after about six weeks and strike out on their own within the next two weeks.
Chipmunks construct extensive burrows which can be more than 3.5 m (11 ft) in length with several well-concealed entrances. The sleeping quarters are kept clear of shells, and feces are stored in refuse tunnels.
The eastern chipmunk hibernates in the winter, while western chipmunks do not, relying on the stores in their burrows."
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