What’s one bird famous for its foul smell? Meet the Hoatzin (Opisthocomus hoazin)! It’s the only bird known to have a form of digestion called foregut fermentation, in which bacteria help to break down the cell walls of leaves, its main source of food. This ability comes with a price, though. As bacteria is released, the Hoatzin bleches out methane. The burps have a manure-like odor that inspired this species nickname: “the stinkbird!”
Photo: The Next Gen Scientist, CC BY 2.0, flickr
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Orinoco Goose ⭐️🍂🍄
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Green Yellow Orinoco (#92f74e to #e8fcd8)
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Barbara Brändli, "Untitled," 1965,
Yanomami community of Mavaca, Upper Orinoco region, Amazonas State, Venezuela,
Digital print, 10 3/8 x 15 3/4 inches
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Mapping Enya’s Orinoco Flow – Map-It
TL;DR – We map all the references made in Enya’s Orinoco Flow from Bali to Cali, far beneath the Coral Sea
Mapping Orinoco Flow –
Some songs are so iconic that you can recognise them by a single chord or word. For me [and I assume many others], one of those songs is Enya’s Orinoco Flow. The song has a rare power to rip me back to the early 1990s in a way I don’t think any other work of media…
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orinoco is one of the wombles ever
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Did you know there are pink dolphins? Meet the Amazon river dolphin (Inia geoffrensis). Found in the Amazon and Orinoco rivers, this species is known for its rosy complexion. How pink it is depends on the water it lives in: the Sun can have a fading effect on its signature color, so living in murkier water can help it retain its pink hue. To track down prey, including piranhas and cichlids, it uses echolocation and the hairs on its snout.
Photo: Ana Claudia Jatahy - MTUR, Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons
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Orinoco Blue Ribbon (#dafcd8 to #2457fd)
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Descubre las emocionantes actividades de ecoturismo que puedes disfrutar en el Delta del Orinoco, uno de los destinos más exóticos de Venezuela.
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In the Orinoco it occurs on the rocks periodically washed by the floods, and in those parts alone where the stream is rapid; or, as the Indians say, 'the rocks are black where the waters are white.'
"Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle Round the World, 1832-36" - Charles Darwin
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