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by davidbunch - 2010-07-23
Professor McKenny Hughes published a study in which he endeavoured to prove that the Chillingham cattle could not possibly be descended from the aurochs. In this he asserted they had "become extinct i...
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by davidbunch - 2010-07-23
Like nearly all-wild animals moving in herds, the Chillingham cattle have a leader. The strongest bull always acts as king of the herd until displaced by a younger rival. Anyone going near the herd mu...
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by davidbunch - 2010-07-23
"The Great Wood" of Chillingham (in Britain), as it was known, became the final retreat to which the beasts were driven by hunting and by increase of population. Those at Chillingham may have formed p...
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by davidbunch - 2010-07-23
At Chillingham, Northumberland, is the most famous herd of wild cattle in Britain, dwelling in natural surrounding in wild, unspoiled parkland studded with trees. This herd has been there since the Mi...
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by davidbunch - 2010-07-23
Other exponents of the united front in domestic matters are the brush turkeys of Australia, exotic birds that work together to accumulate heaps of decaying vegetation. Large communal mounds are thus b...
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by davidbunch - 2010-07-23
In seeking disguise for a home what is more natural than that the creeper, modest caretaker of the tree trunks, should have found that the bark itself lends invisibility. This bird's nest is almost in...
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by WILMER MOONEY - 2010-07-19
West Vancouver - Mattress and Box Spring removal.My next junk removal order was a bed bug mattress and a boxspring. I showed up a little bit past due which in turn is not usual for me. I attempt to be...
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by davidbunch - 2010-07-17
While the potato is of great importance in the United States, it is in northern and central Europe that it is often the chief starchy food of the common people. In addition to its use as food for man ...
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by davidbunch - 2010-07-17
The true origin of new plants introduced to nations around the world, were often hidden in attempts by those nations to claim a particular plant as their own. These false claims were bolstered by trav...
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by davidbunch - 2010-07-17
Imagine a world without a baked potato or candied sweet potato; without string-less beans or baked beans; without roasting ears, popcorn or roasted peanuts! A world without the succulent tomato, the s...
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by davidbunch - 2010-07-17
Tasmania plays host to a number of fascinating creatures, but as ever, man in his wisdom seems interested in them purely for their furs, and numbers are dwindling. The Tasmanian Devil, Tasmanian wolf,...
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by davidbunch - 2010-07-17
Like many great species of animal, the numbers of Rufous Wallaby on Tasmania have decreased over the years due to hunting and trapping, which has relegated the creature from a very common to a rare in...
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by davidbunch - 2010-07-17
Many domestic dogs and cats that have reverted to the wild are also located in Tasmania and they prey upon the same diminishing wildlife that the wolf uses for its subsistence. Lack of food, diseases ...
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by davidbunch - 2010-07-10
In his garden record book Jim Brown has written this eloquent paragraph as part of a 'Garden Prayer": "We know that a garden is a beautiful, sacred place since the days of long ago. Even Thy Son went ...
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by davidbunch - 2010-07-10
In the luscious, fertile Spanish region of Sierra Morena strawberries are abundant, and are a particular favorite of the hedgehog who, as legend has it, enjoy collecting the fruit on their spines. Ano...
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by davidbunch - 2010-07-10
His name is Jim Brown (not James but just plain Jim) and he works five and a half days a week as a clerk in a railroad office. His pay envelope is not too fat, but that does not particularly bother Mr...
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by davidbunch - 2010-07-10
What to grow in 1946 was a question being pondered by many a home gardener ill this first peacetime season in live years. Having battled with spray gun and hoc for four years to help win one of the mo...
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by davidbunch - 2010-07-10
The Legend of the Hedgehog also figures in the armorial bearings of several English families. In Lincolnshire there is (or was in the last century) a saying for a man with a ruffled temper: "He has go...
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by davidbunch - 2010-07-10
That the little gamboling Kangaroo mouse should dare to use combative tactics against the speedy Sidewinder is testimony either to family devotion, or a sporting nature never suspected in a rodent, al...
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by Lucy Carter - 2010-07-10
Street sweeping can be an effective water quality management practice. Stormwater managers have demonstrated a renewed interest in street sweeping due to improvements in road sweeper technology and be...