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El perro guardian

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Junk Guy

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Wayne and Shuster: Rinse The Blood Of My Toga, an Ides of March mystery.

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Three layers of history in one building!

This home in the Fatih district of Istanbul has ancient Roman foundations under Ottoman-period archways, with the house dating to the start of the Turkish republic (c. 1920's).

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More: https://thetravelbible.com/top-artifacts-from-ancient-rome/

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Untitled © Peter Solarz

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Tony Nellis Photography

Waxwing

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El perro guardian

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(Cerastes vipera) dwarf Sahara sand viper

Venom contains mainly mild cytotoxic & neurotoxic components. Bites reportedly painful, but usually not serious.

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Big Brother and I: red-billed oxpecker and the African buffalo, 2022 - by Clint Ralph, South African

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A newly hatched baby egret in a nest in the Wakodahatchee Wetlands in Delray Beach, Florida, US

Photograph: Ronen Tivony/Sopa Images/Rex/Shutterstock

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Causus maculatus

Common Names: Spotted night adder, West African night adder, forest rhombic night adder

Habitat

Found in very wide variety of habitats in a band across western & central Africa; from forest to savanna to semi-desert. Present from senegal east to central Chad, southeast to Zaire, northeast into SE Sudan, & the low country & river gorges of SW Ethiopia, then southwest to northern Angola.

Activity and Behavior

Mainly nocturnal but sometimes active in day or at dusk, & mainly terrestrial but may climb low bushes, sometimes basks in sun. When threatened, inflates body & hisses loudly, not agressive but will bite quickly if further molested. Oviparous w/ 6-20 eggs/ clutch reported. Prey mainly on available frogs, lizards, & sometimes small mammals or birds.

Venom Characteristics

Not well known. Mainly hemotoxic, w/ possible cytotoxic factors. Bites generally cause immediate local pain, at least limited local swelling, sometimes fever, & painful regional lymphadenopathy. Second most common cause of snake-bite mortality in Senegal. No known antivenom currently produced.

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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-22/food-plant-solutions-malnutrition-farming-edible-plants/12580732

https://fms.cmsvr.com/fmi/webd/Food_Plants_World

This guy is my new hero. I LOVE learning about native food plants that just grow everywhere without human help.

The database is a little clunky to use (especially on a phone), but still loads of excellent information.

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