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Meerkats may be able to handle a bite from some types of venomous snakes. Biologists have discovered meerkats are immune to some snakes' venom as they belong to the mongoose family. In some parts of the world, people prize mongooses as house guards because they can battle with deadly snakes, like cobras. If bitten they feel unwell for serval hours but make a full recovery.
Meerkats are actually pretty tough if you look like lunch
Meerkats may looks absolutely adorable but they lead dangerous lives. They have developed a technique for handling the venom found in scorpions, which they eat. When a scorpion sees a meerkat it moves in quickly for the kill. The scorpion may be aware a meerkat is close by, but it grabs the arachnid so fast it can’t attack. First the meerkat zeroes in on the tail biting off the scorpion's stinger and discarding it. Without its tail the scorpion can’t strike delivering venom. The pincers may cause a nasty nip, but that’s all. There is however still venom on its exoskeleton. To combat this, meerkats have learned to rub scorpions in the sand to remove any remaining venom. Lunch is served!
Meerkats are highly intelligent
Meerkats are much smarter than they look. A recent study at St Andrews University – Scotland – found meerkats use complex coordinated behaviour, which rivals that of chimps, baboons, dolphins and even humans. They solve tasks with help from their mob but also a bit of independent thought. The study saw meerkats engaged in a wide variety of social and asocial behaviours to solve tasks. In general the social factors helped draw the meerkats into the task, while the asocial processes helped them actually solve it.
Meerkats are omnivores!
You may be surprised to learn meerkats are omnivores – they eat fruit and vegetables as well as animals. Unlike humans, they have no excess body fat stores and therefore foraging for food is a constant activity. Their diet mostly consists of insects, which they sniff out using their enhanced sense of smell. They also eat small rodents, fruit, birds, eggs, lizards and as we’ve seen poisonous scorpions as well as snakes.
The desert is dry but meerkats don’t drink water
Despite living in the desert unbelievably meerkats do not need extra water in their diets. They get all the moisture they need from the insects and grubs they eat. A human would die within 3 – 5 days without additional water.
” We are not immune to bullet, fist or blade but any insult raised against us will be met with a blockade. We are stoic, but still smiles, cracking our face open without reserve for a friend, to calm, to a foe, to unnerve. A gentleman dresses his best, whether it Vans and sweater, or tie and vest. No-one is beneath our attention they gifts compliments quite often, but when a man puts a hand on us, that man goes home in a coffin. “
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This flower along with the Sunflowers are pretty much immune to the super heat we've had for the past two weeks. Thanks for the look and have a great evening.
Usually our immunity system works better in summer, and the moisture in the air would tend to give the bronchia a better buffer and hence protection. So let's do what we can and hope for the best !
Did COVID-19 Come from America?
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A Local Hong Kong Song by the late Beyond
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Raoul Koczalski plays
Tchaikovsky The Seasons
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Scriabin
“There is a great independence, and a confident immunity to risk, in all drinks made out of cactus.”
― Alan LeMay
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Promoters of Echinacea believe it boosts the immune system. Seeing these first thing on a dewy morning certainly boosted my mood even without ingesting any of it.
Even Superman isn’t immune to social media! What was once the 19th century excavation pits for the South River Brick Company is now home to the Constitution Lakes Park that spreads over 125 acres in the industrial zone in Atlanta. The area is also home to an urban conservation effort to restore and repurpose areas within the city’s landscapes. I visited the park while attending a TNC meeting and hiked the interesting doll heads trail that has a number of art instillations made from found rubbish collected within the park during clean ups. I found these the funniest – or creepiest – your call!
calming itchy skin.
waking you up.
increasing circulation.
reducing muscle soreness post-workout.
potentially boosting weight loss.
glowing hair and skin.
reinforces your immune system.
against the corona blues.
You've answered my prayer for a worthless diamond in our carbon lives
You said you'd always be fine
And you said you'd never stop
Coming 'round in the dead of night
You said forever was unkind
*From which stars have we fallen to meet each other here?*
Friedrich Nietzsche
Taken at Natthimmel 💗
For increasing my own immune system, I decided to hike to the Phoenix Mountain last Sunday where is full of
Pythoncide. :-) It happened to be a rainy day.
Xitou Nature Education Area or Xitou Bamboo Forest is a forest park in Lugu Village, Lugu Township, Nantou County, Taiwan. Xitou is derived from a Chinese word with the meaning of the origin of river. During the Japanese rule of Taiwan, the forest was used as an experimental forest for University of Tokyo students. Later after the handover of Taiwan from Japan to the Republic of China in 1945, the forest was declared a nature reserve and named Xitou Nature Education Area in 1970. On 11 September 2016, a 2,800-year old giant tree fell after long heavy rain, injuring three visitors.
They have a gazebo where you can go and watch the flow of the water over the weir dam. The dam aerates the water. This is a few feet from the bridge in previous image. The evening shadows really helped with both these images.
Beautiful week here with 70 degree F. Days (21 Celsuis). We have been able to go to the local parks for the last 3 days. We usually go to one closer than this. The local one has a 2 mile path around a beautiful lake so if you go there and back it is 4 miles which we have been doing now every chance we get. Many have on masks. I take mine. We are supposed to be fully immune by the last day of March with the vaccine my husband and I received.
Topaz Studio Art filters applied
January always feels like a good time for a bit of a detox... especially after all the holiday food.
"Was willst du dich denn hier genieren?
Mußt du nicht längst kolonisieren?" (Goethe, Faust II,5). The hesitancy of renaissance man to listen to the devil. Two LED lamps. The quote is taken from a scene where the Devil (successfully) persuades Faust to get rid of some old people who are in the way of his grandiose dreams.
Updated: I posted this over a couple of years ago initially. There are literally no words that fit my devastation of yesterday's Immunity decision that an American president is above the law and can do anything they want. This mainly affects the irresponsible and reckless man who insisted he could murder someone on 5th Avenue and get away with it. Well, his buddies who have in a single week also made it illegal to be homeless and legal for politicians to accept bribes also destroyed Democracy. Let's also not forget their ruling supporting Bump Stock weapons. My country is insane.
What I wrote initially two years ago:
There is just no way a handful of mainly old white men, some of whom should never have been appointed and have harmed women in their own lives. Other judges cared so little about America they were tied to the Capital Hill Insurrection....and they can't handle protestors on their lawns. Meanwhile, Christine Blasey Ford had to move 4 times because of threats to her life with no protections after she testified about what Brett Kavanaugh did to her. The Senate in my country moved quickly to protect his mysteriously paid off house lawn but they have done nothing to protect human rights. What a waste! We Americans who want progress in this world are still being held hostage by our so called elected leaders and it's no mistake that the first thing this bunch of criminals did is gerrymander and take away voting rights.
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’m not immune from posting pretty vacation pictures.
Messing about with the 4x5 camera and usually the only time I get to play with it is on vacation so there ya go.
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This is last year’s attempt. Will have to get on processing this years.. hopefully it won’t take a year..
Shen Hoa 4x5
Fujinon 180 mm f.1:5.6 w/yellowfilter
Ilford FP-4
Meerkats:
Meerkats come from very dry regions of southern Africa.
Meerkats are immune to scorpion venom and can run at a speed of up to 37 miles per hour.
You can’t make a pet of them as they are very possessive and will mark their owner with urine or bite any stranger.
"So, who is going to suffer most from the economic and social costs of lockdown? The economically productive. And who are those few to die from the virus? Almost exclusively the economically unproductive! So, give them a fine label such as 'our most protected social bubble' and let the virus run free!"
Even though they are very small, ruby-crowned kinglets migrate later than most warblers and will sometimes stay in the area until the snow flies, surviving on tiny midges that are equally immune to the cold temperatures.
"Sometime the warmest smile comes from the saddest face
Sometimes the brightest light comes from the darkest place..."
Well, finally it was my turn for receiving the Covid-19 vaccine. Behind the mask, I am smiling in this selfie. This is the beginning of the end of this pandemic. I hope that soon all of you will get the vaccine, my dear flickr-friends.
So far, I haven't feel any superpowers, any 5G internet connection, any extra wifi spots, just another happy human being with an additional beskar armor in my left arm and part of the herd immunity!
The Mission: youtu.be/ntMfdlMD6Oo
Immune boosting tea in one of my favourite mugs from a range by Royal Doulton called London's Calling. HMM! :-)
La Campana Tibetana è un antico strumento musicale originario del Tibet ma diffuso anche in altre regioni asiatiche tra cui India e Nepal.
L'origine risale a circa 3 mila anni fa.
Dalla seconda metà del XX secolo questo oggetto venne accolto anche nella cultura occidentale.
La maggior parte delle campane tibetane presenti in commercio sono formate da leghe di bronzo, tuttavia quella più preziosa è composta da sette leghe metalliche: oro, argento, mercurio, rame,ferro, stagno,piombo. Ogni metallo corrisponde ad un preciso pianeta del sistema solare: Sole, Luna, Mercurio, Venere, Marte, Giove, Saturno.
Il suono emesso dalla campana tibetana risulta sintonizzato con le vibrazioni planetarie ed è per questo che sono ottimi strumenti per rilassarsi, meditare, fare yoga. Favoriscono l’equilibrio emozionale, conferiscono energia, migliorano la concentrazione, normalizzano la pressione sanguigna e stimolano anche il sistema immunitario.
Esistono due metodi per suonarle: colpendole come un gong o strofinandole sul bordo con l’apposito bastoncino.
Ma al di là delle regole base, ognuno di noi acquisirà man mano un proprio modo di suonarle che dipenderà anche dalle caratteristiche della campana tibetana stessa.
The Tibetan Bell is an ancient musical instrument originating in Tibet but also widespread in other Asian regions including India and Nepal.
The origin dates back to around 3 thousand years ago.
From the second half of the twentieth century this object was also accepted in western culture.
Most of the Tibetan bells on the market are made of bronze alloys, however the most precious one is made up of seven metal alloys: gold, silver, mercury, copper, iron, tin, lead. Each metal corresponds to a specific planet in the solar system: Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn.
The sound emitted by the Tibetan bell is attuned to the planetary vibrations and this is why they are excellent tools for relaxing, meditating, doing yoga. They promote emotional balance, give energy, improve concentration, normalize blood pressure and also stimulate the immune system.
There are two methods of playing them: hitting them like a gong or rubbing them on the edge with the special stick.
But beyond the basic rules, each of us will gradually acquire their own way of playing them which will also depend on the characteristics of the Tibetan bell itself.
2nd one from today. I took the opportunity to try and catch a decent sunrise and high tide together on these sea defences. I got half of it right. Beautiful skies left, right and behind, but nothing in front of me. So frustrating. The clouds were drifting in the right direction but just too late. At least I had the high tide. The lack of clouds meant defaulting to a simple composition.
The inspiration for this one comes from a lot of places. The levitation aspect of it from:
And also, the composition and other elements were inspired by *Lani's photo.
This isn't a traditional "levitation" shot, because I rotated it, so the levitation aspect of it isn't as obvious as it would be if I left it oriented the original way, but this is what I had in my head when I shot it.
The original is below, and was combined with a photo of the empty hallway, minus me and the chair. Similar to cloning. I did a lot more post work on this than usual - probably more than any other photo I've ever posted here.. and I don't mean on myself, but primarily on the background - getting rid of the carpet, door frames, baseboards, etc. of the original shot. Add to that temperature, exposure, cropping, and all that crap and off the top of my head I can't think of any photo I've done that has been manipulated more.
And I don't mean that in a negative way. Manipulation is sometimes the only way to achieve the desired result. I ♥ Photoshop.
Bigger on black is here.