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#103 -- Nutritious -- 118 Pictures in 2018
And for Studio 26, assignment on color -- resorting to produce, which is much more colorful than our surroundings right now.
Osprey in Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, Florida. I was very fortunate and privileged to witness this feast for a good 45 minutes. The head is always the most nutritious part.
Great sight to watch these elephants being taken care of very well by the team at the camp. They are given nutritious food to ensure their health is well maintained too.
Geladas are not actually baboons but a species in their own right. They can only be found on the escarpments and gorges of Ethiopia's highlands where there is little nutritious food. Hence they spend much of their waking day shuffling around on their bottoms eating grasses and tubers which they uproot with their strongly nailed fingers.
Masai Mara National Reserve
Kenya
East Africa
A zebra is easy to recognize because people have seen it before, but an eland is not so easy to recognize. A description of an eland is seen below.
Wikipedia - The common eland (Taurotragus oryx), also known as the southern eland or eland antelope, is a savannah and plains antelope found in East and Southern Africa. It is a species of the family Bovidae and genus Taurotragus. It was first described by Peter Simon Pallas in 1766. An adult male is around 1.6 metres (5') tall at the shoulder (females are 20 centimetres (8") shorter) and can weigh up to 942 kg (2077 lbs) with an average of 500–600 kilograms (1,100–1,300 lb, 340–445 kilograms (750–980 lb) for females). It is the second largest antelope in the world, being slightly smaller on average than the giant eland.
Mainly an herbivore, its diet is primarily grasses and leaves. Common elands form herds of up to 500 animals, but are not territorial. The common eland prefers habitats with a wide variety of flowering plants such as savannah, woodlands, and open and montane grasslands; it avoids dense forests. It uses loud barks, visual and postural movements and the flehmen response to communicate and warn others of danger. The common eland is used by humans for leather, meat, and rich, nutritious milk, and has been domesticated in many areas.
It is native to Botswana, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, South Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe but is no longer present in Burundi and Angola. While the common eland's population is decreasing, it is classified as "Least Concern" by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
Dandelions collected on my urban morning walk. Well washed in several changes of cold water. Shaken dry and bagged for fridge. They make a tasty and highly-nutritious addition to a mixed greens salad.
I'm not crazy. Many well-known 'foodies' recommend it. There's an interesting short video with Mark Bittman and others demonstrating urban foraging.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8BLU3iaLgM
Very high in Vitamin A, especially!
A bit of history:
Wikipedia:
"Dandelions are thought to have evolved about 30 million years ago in Eurasia. Fossil seeds of †Taraxacum tanaiticum have been recorded from the Pliocene of southern Russia. Dandelions have been used by humans for food and as an herb for much of recorded history. They were well known to ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans, and have been used in Chinese traditional medicine for over a thousand years. Dandelions probably arrived in North America on the Mayflower--not as stowaways, but brought on purpose for their medicinal benefits."
"Palm jaggery is loaded with essential nutrients. It is high in iron which helps in treating anemia by increasing the hemoglobin level. It also contains magnesium, which helps in regulating the nervous system. It is equally rich in calcium, phosphorus, and potassium."
Delicious and nutritious chicken curry. It's homemade. Cooked with Indian spices and herbs, you can have this tasty curry with rice or flour bread.
#FlickrFriday theme #HomeMade
Quamash is a wild flower that grows from a bulb in fields. The bulb is highly nutritious and the natives used to harvest them. There is a similar plant whose bulb is poisonous however, so I wouldn't advise rushing out and trying them without further research...(Taken at the Cedar Hill Golf Club/King's Pond Trail, BC.)
Please don't use this image on websites, blogs, etc. without my permission.
"Are koalas drunk? It's a common myth that gets spread around as an explanation for why koalas sleep so much!
We're here to debunk that myth!
Koalas only eat gum leaves ... that part is true, but the leaves don't cause them to get drunk or high. Instead, the leaves have low nutritious value, with high fibre content, making them very slow to digest.
As a result, they don't give the koalas much energy, causing them to sleep all day! It also allows the koalas to conserve their energy, so it's ready when they need it, getting away from a predator, for example.
If you compare it to the human species, it would be like a human eating McDonalds or Hungry Jacks or any other fast food all day, week or year and then trying to run a marathon. It just wouldn't work! There would be no nutrition and not enough energy to sustain that physical output.
So next time you see a koala having a snooze, remember they're not drunk or high, they're living the life we all secretly wish we could have! Eating junk food and sleeping all day it sounds perfect, doesn't it!"
cairnszoom.com.au/are-koalas-drunk/
This makes me worry somewhat about the information that zoos are distributing ... I can categorically deny that I wish for a junk food lifestyle ... Sleeping all day ... Mmmm ... the jury's still out on that one! Sleeping through the night, now that would be good.
Here's the female Black Bear from yesterday's upload with a Pink Salmon in her jaws. We were shooting in fog that morning and it was dense at times, so I boosted contrast and saturation in post processing to cut through some of it. An exciting moment for the photographer, the bear, and no doubt the fish, too.
Which reminds me... one of our friends, a sublime teller of tall tales, was in fine form that week. "When the salmon fry leave their stream for the open ocean," she said, "they swim backwards, so that they can find their way back in a few years to spawn." (This is not a verbatim quote, but close enough.) She looked so innocent, so convincing. One of my friends repeated this to a couple of German tourists, who replied, "Ja? We didn't know that." Oh, no! This is how rumours get started! Canadian salmon swim out to sea backwards! If this story spreads across Germany, you heard it here first, and it's NOT TRUE (although very funny)!!! Please accept my apology on behalf of all Canadians. We are a funny lot.
Photographed along coastal British Columbia (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission © 2018 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
Quitandole las espinas a los nopales
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She is removing the thorns of the nopales (cactus paddles) she sells.
Nopales are delicious and nutritious.
Yecapixtla, Morelos, Mexico
this individual needs momentum to reach the nutritious prize -- freshly spawned salmon eggs
so a short flight up to dive suffices
Iceland Gull (ICGU Larus glaucoides thayeri))
Thayer's Subspecies
Goldstream Provincial Park
Vancouver Island BC
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Formerly Thayer's Gull [Thayer's Gull THGU (Larus thayeri)]
and Iceland Gull [Iceland Gull (Larus kumlieni)]
were designated as 2 separate species.
Now lumped under Iceland Gull.
The common warthog is the only pig species that has adapted to grazing and savanna habitats. Its diet is omnivorous, composed of grasses, roots, berries and other fruits, bark, fungi, insects, eggs and carrion. The diet is seasonably variable, depending on availability of different food items. During the wet seasons, warthogs graze on short perennial grasses. During the dry seasons, they subsist on bulbs, rhizomes, and nutritious roots. Warthogs are powerful diggers, using both their snouts and feet. Whilst feeding, they often bend their front feet backwards and move around on the wrists. Calloused pads that protect the wrists during such movement form quite early in the development of the fetus. Although they can dig their own burrows, they commonly occupy abandoned burrows of aardvarks and other animals. The common warthog commonly reverses into burrows, with its head facing the opening and ready to burst out if necessary. Common warthogs will wallow in mud to cope with high temperatures and huddle together to cope with low temperatures.
Common warthogs are not territorial, but instead occupy a home range. Common warthogs live in groups called sounders. Females live in sounders with their young and with other females. Females tend to stay in their natal groups, while males leave, but stay within the home range. Subadult males associate in bachelor groups, but live alone when they become adults.Adult males only join sounders with estrous females.
As of 1999, the common warthog population in southern Africa is estimated to be about 250,000. Typical densities range between one and 10 per km2 in protected areas, but local densities of 77 per km2 were found on short grass in Nakuru National Park. The species is susceptible to drought and hunting (especially with dogs), which may result in localized extinctions. The common warthog is present in numerous protected areas across its extensive range
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설렁탕[seolleongtang] Ox Bone Soup
Nutritious soup made with beef bones and slices of beef. It is typically simmered overnight. Salt or seasoning may be added onc e served.
Dragon fruit grows on the Hylocereus cactus, also known as the Honolulu queen. The plant is native to southern Mexico and Central America. Today, it is grown all over the world. It goes by many names, including pitaya, pitahaya, and strawberry pear.
Bohemian Waxwing / bombycilla garrulus. Carrington, Nottingham. 14/01/17.
My third day of watching Waxwings in Carrington. Just two seen although ten reported earlier.
This individual was filling up on Rowan berries that looked well past their sell-by date! An irony was that lower down, on the edge of the tree there were still numerous sprays of fresher berries - more nutritious for the Waxwing I would have thought, far prettier for image making too. (Frustratingly, Redwings and Blackbirds were eating those, just NOT the Waxwing! It was possibly hell bent on getting tipsy from eating fermented fruit.)
This image shows the Waxwing's bulging crop quite nicely.
BEST VIEWED LARGE.
The pink membrane under the lower mandible was starting to stretch with the weight of the berry cache, a phenomenon I have never noticed before.
CC Bonus Challenge - One of Your "Five a Day"
CC Week 4 - Visual weight and balance
The larger jar in back is more shaded, framing the jar in front which is more focused, standing out with natural daylight highlights.
These fruit smoothies were made with mixed berries, frozen chunks of mango, and almond milk. Instead of yoghurt I used cottage cheese for the first time in a smoothie. It came out fine and provided plenty of healthy nutrients.
I sometimes use my mother's old canning jars for containers or as glasses for beverages like these.
All my food is always edible (at home, there are hungry people waiting, not very patiently, to eat it).....i.e. it's real food.......not raw masquerading as cooked, white glue instead of milk, potato shavings instead of ice-cream, dummy mock-ups, varnish for shine, shoe polish, grease for browning....etc !!
In this shot though I had to stick in pins to make the sandwiches stand (no toothpicks didn't work!) and the sandwich had wilted by the time I finished clicking ! :((
Also, I realised that using scissors to cut the bread slices instead of a knife would have given me perfect edges !
A light lunch. These came from Morecambe Bay and are a local delicacy. Nutritious and tasty. Some eat this warm but I prefer cold. Produced the same way for hundreds of years.
Delicious Nutritious Carrot Cake
Another set I've had for a long time & just discovered it. Love the carrot/grater, & the teeny little fork with the rabbit head.
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Taken at The Philippine Tarsier and Wildlife Sanctuary of Canapnapan, Corella, Bohol
Tarsiers are haplorrhine primates of the family Tarsiidae, which is itself the lone extant family within the infraorder Tarsiiformes. Although the group was once more widespread, all the species living today are found in the islands of Southeast Asia.
Tarsiers are small animals with enormous eyes; each eyeball is approximately 16 mm in diameter and is as large as its entire brain. The unique cranial anatomy of the tarsier results from the need to balance their large eyes and heavy head so they are able to wait silently for nutritious prey. Tarsiers have an incredibly strong auditory sense because their auditory cortex is very distinct. Tarsiers also have very long hind limbs, due mostly to the extremely elongated tarsus bones of the feet, from which the animals get their name. The combination of their elongated tarsi and fused tibiofibulae makes them morphologically specialized for vertical clinging and leaping. The head and body range from 10 to 15 cm in length, but the hind limbs are about twice this long (including the feet), and they also have a slender tail from 20 to 25 cm long. Their fingers are also elongated, with the third finger being about the same length as the upper arm. Most of the digits have nails, but the second and third toes of the hind feet bear claws instead, which are used for grooming. Tarsiers have very soft, velvety fur, which is generally buff, beige, or ochre in color.
Unlike other prosimians, tarsiers lack any toothcomb, and their dental formula is also unique:
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Unlike many nocturnal vertebrates, tarsiers lack a light-reflecting area (tapetum lucidum) of the eye and have a fovea.
The tarsier's brain is different from other primates in terms of the arrangement of the connections between the two eyes and the lateral geniculate nucleus, which is the main region of the thalamus that receives visual information. The sequence of cellular layers receiving information from the ipsilateral (same side of the head) and contralateral (opposite side of the head) eyes in the lateral geniculate nucleus distinguishes tarsiers from lemurs, lorises, and monkeys, which are all similar in this respect. Some neuroscientists suggested that this apparent difference distinguishes tarsiers from all other primates, reinforcing the view that they arose in an early, independent line of primate evolution.
Philippine tarsiers are capable of hearing frequencies as high as 91 kHz. They are also capable of vocalisations with a dominant frequency of 70 kHz.
A sanctuary near the town of Corella, on the Philippine island of Bohol, is having some success restoring tarsier populations. The Philippines Tarsier Foundation (PTFI) has developed a large, semi wild enclosure known as the Tarsier Research and Development Center. Carlito Pizarras, also known as the Tarsier man;, founded this sanctuary where visitors can watch tarsiers up close in the wild (naturally without touching them). As of 2011, the sanctuary was taken care of by him and his brother. The trees in the sanctuary are populated with nocturnal insects that make up the tarsier's diet.
The conservation status of all tarsiers is vulnerable to extinction. Tarsiers are a conservation dependent species meaning that they need to have more and improved management of protected habitats or they will definitely become extinct in the future.
The Yellow-shafted Northern Flicker resides in eastern North America while the Red-shafted Flicker resides in the western part. Yellow-shafted Flickers are yellow under the tail (as seen above) and underwings, and have yellow shafts on their primaries where as with the Red-shafted it's red. Both species have a grey cap, a beige face and a red chevron shaped bar at the nape of their neck. Yellow-shafted males have a black moustache while the Red-shafted's moustache is red. Females of both species look essentially the same as the male except they lack the moustache and are typically slightly smaller in size.
Flickers are a medium-to-large-sized woodpecker, measuring 11 - 14 inches (28 - 36 cm) in length with a 17 - 21 inch (42 - 54 cm) wingspan.
Northern Flickers are the only woodpecker that frequently feeds on the ground, probing with their beak, it also sometimes catches insects in flight. Although they eat fruits, berries, seeds and nuts, their primary food is insects. Ants alone can make up 45% of their diet. Flickers often go after ants underground (where the nutritious larvae live), hammering at the soil the way other woodpeckers drill into wood. Their tongues can dart out 2 inches beyond the end of the bill to snare prey. As well as eating ants, flickers have a behavior called "anting", during which they use the acid from the ants to assist in preening, as it is useful in keeping them free of parasites.
Flickers may be observed in open habitats near trees, including woodlands, edges, yards, and parks. Northern birds sometimes migrate to the southern parts of their range; southern birds are often permanent residents.
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