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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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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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Tchaikovsky The Seasons
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Don't you love SPRING? Well, I used to suffer from severe allergies, which wasn't a rosy picnic, had got allergy shots for over 30 years, at one time, 7 shots every week. Until 13 or 14 year ago, I finally got immune from it. Perhaps a little sneeze during the season for me now. Yep, I was allergic to almost everything, pollen was my #1 enemy. They said, wearing the masks help prevent from getting allergic reaction,. :-))
Blackbird
Do you know that ...
A singing male attracts the attention of a female. But she is especially interested in the color of the beak from which that song comes out. The brighter orange, the faster her heart will beat. The color reflects his health. Intense orange therefore means a great father-to-be. Carotenoids - derived from food - provide the color and play a role in the immune system. A paler yellow bill shows that the blackbird is in a health slump. During that period, the carotenoids play more of a role in the immune system and less is left for the beak. Once strengthened, the bill turns a nice orange again.
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.
“There is a great independence, and a confident immunity to risk, in all drinks made out of cactus.”
― Alan LeMay
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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!
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 💗
Rainbow bee-eaters are always watching for flying insects, and can spot a potential meal up to 45 metres away. Once it spots an insect a bee-eater will swoop down from its perch and catch it in its long, slender, black bill and fly back to its perch. Bee-eaters will then knock their prey against their perch to eat it.
Even though rainbow bee-eaters are actually immune to the stings of bees and wasps, upon capturing a bee they will rub the insect's stinger against their perch to remove it, closing their eyes to avoid being squirted with poison from the ruptured poison sac.
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.
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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Somewhere north of Deniliquin - NSW
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I really want to believe we’re building up an immunity, or at least that’s the comforting thought I like to think! The thing is, traveling to tropical destinations has become a true test of stoicism. During the stay, we are the main course at the mosquitoes' banquet, and the aftermath back home is absolute torture. In Costa Rica and Panama, for instance, we brought back a two-week souvenir of intense itching and misery, just waiting for all the bumps and bites to finally heal!
This time around, not a single mosquito in sight. On the other hand, I have never seen so many flies in my entire life! When we were in Melbourne and already complaining, we were warned that it would be worse in Alice Springs... but nobody warned us that here in Deniliquin it would be the absolute limit! The scenery here was truly mind-blowing: it felt like we were trapped inside a living cloud of them. At one point, we looked at the back of our guide's jacket and there were hundreds of them camped out there. They didn’t bite, true, but they had an incredible knack for being annoying.
The height of despair was when they decided to launch a kamikaze attack and wedge themselves right between my eyes and my glasses. Just try focusing through a camera viewfinder and taking a decent photo with a fly buzzing and thrashing right in front of your retina... Mission impossible!
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Quero muito acreditar que já estamos a criar imunidade, ou pelo menos é o que me dá conforto pensar! É que viajar para destinos tropicais tem sido um autêntico teste de estoicismo. Durante a estadia somos o prato principal do banquete dos mosquitos, e o pós-regresso é um verdadeiro suplício. Na Costa Rica e no Panamá, por exemplo, trouxemos na mala duas semanas de coceira intensa e sofrimento, à espera que todas as borbulhas e feridas das picadelas finalmente sarassem!
Desta vez, nem sinal de mosquitos. Em contrapartida, nunca na minha vida vi tanta mosca! Quando estávamos em Melbourne e já nos queixávamos, avisaram-nos que em Alice Springs a coisa seria pior... mas ninguém nos alertou que aqui em Deniliquin seria o cúmulo! O cenário neste local foi mesmo impressionante: parecia que estávamos enfiados dentro de uma nuvem delas. A certa altura, olhámos para as costas do casaco do nosso guia e havia centenas delas lá acampadas. Não mordiam, é verdade, mas tinham um dom incrível para chatear.
O pico do desespero foi quando decidiram fazer um ataque kamikaze e encurralar-se entre os meus olhos e os óculos. Tentem lá focar o visor da câmara fotográfica e tirar uma foto com uma mosca a debater-se mesmo à frente da vossa retina... Missão impossível!
This is the famous plains native perennial called Purple Coneflower, but better known today by its botanical name: Echinacea. With long-lasting flowers that attract birds, butterflies, and bees, Echinacea is easy to grow and makes excellent cut flowers. For years before it was a favorite of the herbal medicine industry, it was always one of the loveliest wildflowers on the plains.
Various parts of this plant are used for making herbal infusions, which help strengthen the immune system. These are believed to be quite effective in fighting against bacterial and viral infections. Some of the varieties are known for the vibrant purple hue and bright foliage. Not only are these flowers great to look at, they also have a wonderful fragrance.
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Government regimented exercise for the day. Sunrise over Chester Meadows with low mist spilling onto the adjacent fields from the banks of The River Dee.
Was wonderful to hear and see the Clap for Carers last night but unfortunately the message still isn't getting through for a limited number of selfish people. 6-7% apparently is the figure.
One of my neighbours who has an immune compromised child still thinks it's okay to socialise in groups outside of their own home.
The sheer selfishness of some people is staggering.
Stay safe all.
Red-tailed Hawk
Last night I scheduled two appointments to receive a Covid 19 vaccine. I could have scheduled several months ago to get the vaccine. I felt safe holding off because we don’t go to public indoor places. We order online and use curbside pickup. My family wants me to get the vaccine because things might come up that would require me to go to places where there are groups of people. I was thinking maybe I could have made the wrong decision by scheduling the appointments last tonight because of hearing that the vaccines might not work on the new mutations which every virus has. But I read the best way to stop the mutations is to get the vaccine because the more people that are infected with the virus, the more chances there are for a mutation to occur. So I think the sooner we reach herd immunity the better off we will be.
’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
Vultures play the vital role of "nature's clean-up crew," efficiently removing decaying animal remains and preventing the spread of diseases like anthrax and rabies. Because they can travel long distances quickly and feed in large groups, they often dispose of a carcass before harmful bacteria have time to proliferate.
When vultures eat lunch they happily strip the rotting carcasses they find back to the bone. And if, however, the animal’s hide is too tough to easily pierce with their beak, they don’t hesitate to enter it using other routes, among them the back entrance – so to speak: via the anus. Although their diet of meat that is both rotting and liberally contaminated with feces would likely kill most other animals, they are apparently immune to the cocktail of deadly microbes within their dinner such as Clostridia, Fuso- and Anthrax-bacteria.
Such is 'life' on Earth.
Griffon Vultures at cow carcass Andalucia_3899
The Basilica of Saint Mary Major, or church of Santa Maria Maggiore (also referred to as Santa Maria delle Nevi from its Latin origin Sancta Maria ad Nives), is one of the four major papal basilicas as well as one of the Seven Pilgrim Churches of Rome and the largest Marian church in Rome, Italy. Santa Maria Maggiore is the first Marian sanctuary in the Western world and the mother of all sanctuaries.
The basilica enshrines the venerated image of Salus Populi Romani, depicting the Blessed Virgin Mary as the health and protector of the Roman people, which was granted a Canonical coronation by Pope Gregory XVI on 15 August 1838 accompanied by his papal bull Cælestis Regina.
Pursuant to the Lateran Treaty of 1929 between the Holy See and Italy, the Basilica is in Italy and not the Vatican City. However, the Holy See fully owns the basilica, and Italy is legally obligated to recognise its full ownership thereof and to concede to it "the immunity granted by international law to the headquarters of the diplomatic agents of foreign states." In other words, the complex of buildings has a status somewhat similar to an embassy.
"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
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.