From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #5557 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Wednesday, December 23 2020 Volume 14 : Number 5557 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Worried About Fatty Liver? Here's The Secret To Fix It ["LiverMD Partner"] =?UTF-8?B?2LTZh9in2K/YqSDYp9mE2YXYr9mK2LEg2KfZhA==?= =?UTF-8?B?2YXYp9mE2Ykg2KfZhNmF2LnYqtmF2K8gKCA=?= =?UTF-8?B?2KjYp9i52KrZhdin2K8g2KzYp9mF2LnYqSDZhQ==?= =?UTF-8?B?2YrYstmI2LHZiiDYp9mE2KfZhdix2YrZg9mK2Kk=?= =?UTF-8?B?ICApINmK2YbYp9mK2LEgMjAyMSA=?= =?UTF-8?B?2YUg2KzZgNmA2YDZiNin2YQgJiDZiNin2Ko=?= =?UTF-8?B?2LMg2KfYqCDYp9i22LrYtyDZh9mG2KcgOiAwMDIwMTA5MDk0NjQ0MA==?= [] The RoboClean UV Superior ["RoboClean UV" ] BONUS: $50 CVS Gift Card Opportunity ["CVS Opinion Requested" Subject: Worried About Fatty Liver? Here's The Secret To Fix It Worried About Fatty Liver? Here's The Secret To Fix It http://dealkart.icu/alWTRLwCK59AvUewXoS2kSWsTCBzIoVfNYTFqYpSJQeNP8D9 http://dealkart.icu/f5vK7z2yXwm8enVnj9moDG0OmqL-iRkpM39NHYOnFVIoqmfw ently engage in mobbing include mockingbirds, crows and jays, chickadees, terns, and blackbirds. Behavior includes flying about the intruder, dive bombing, loud squawking and defecating on the predator. Mobbing can also be used to obtain food, by driving larger birds and mammals away from a food source, or by harassing a bird with food. One bird might distract while others quickly steal food. Scavenging birds such as gulls frequently use this technique to steal food from humans nearby. A flock of birds might drive a powerful animal away from food. Costs of mobbing behavior include the risk of engaging with predators, as well as energy expended in the process. The black-headed gull is a species which aggressively engages intruding predators, such as carrion crows. Classic experiments on this species by Hans Kruuk involved placing hen eggs at intervals from a nesting colony, and recording the percentage of successful predation events as well as the probability of the crow being subjected to mobbing. The results showed decreasing mobbing with increased distance from the nest, which was correlated with increased predation success. Mobbing may function by reducing the predator's ability to locate nests (as a distraction) since predators cannot focus on locating eggs while they are under attack. Crows mobbing a perched bald eagle Besides the ability to drive the predator away, mobbing also draws attention to the predator, making stealth attacks impossible. Mobbing plays a critical role in the identification of predators and inter-generational learning about predator identification. Reintroduction of species is often unsuccessful, because the established population lacks this cultural knowledge of how to identify local predators. Scientists are exploring ways to train populations to identify and respond to predators before releasing them into the wild. Adaptationist hypotheses regarding why an organism should engage in such risky behavior have been suggested by Eberhard Curio, including advertising their physical fitness and hence uncatchability (much like stotting behavior in gazelles), distracting predators from finding their offspring, warning their offspring, luring the predator away, allowing offspring to learn to recognize the pre ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2020 04:41:05 -0800 (PST) From: "yy26...@gmail.com" Subject: =?UTF-8?B?2LTZh9in2K/YqSDYp9mE2YXYr9mK2LEg2KfZhA==?= =?UTF-8?B?2YXYp9mE2Ykg2KfZhNmF2LnYqtmF2K8gKCA=?= =?UTF-8?B?2KjYp9i52KrZhdin2K8g2KzYp9mF2LnYqSDZhQ==?= =?UTF-8?B?2YrYstmI2LHZiiDYp9mE2KfZhdix2YrZg9mK2Kk=?= =?UTF-8?B?ICApINmK2YbYp9mK2LEgMjAyMSA=?= =?UTF-8?B?2YUg2KzZgNmA2YDZiNin2YQgJiDZiNin2Ko=?= =?UTF-8?B?2LMg2KfYqCDYp9i22LrYtyDZh9mG2KcgOiAwMDIwMTA5MDk0NjQ0MA==?= IAoKKtin2YTYs9mE2KfZhSDYudmE2YrZg9mFINmI2LHYrdmF2Kkg2KfZhNmE2Ycg2YjYqNix2YPY 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Many colonies are situated in locations that are naturally free of predators. In other cases, the presence of many birds means there are more individuals available for defense. Also, synchronized breeding leads to such an abundance of offspring as to satiate predators. For seabirds, colonies on islands have an obvious advantage over mainland colonies when it comes to protection from terrestrial predators. Other situations can also be found where bird colonies avoid predation. A study of yellow-rumped caciques in Peru found that the birds, which build enclosed, pouch-like nests in colonies of up to one hundred active nests, situate themselves near wasp nests, which provide some protection from tree-dwelling predators such as monkeys. When other birds came to rob the nests, the caciques would cooperatively defend the colony by mobbing the invader. Mobbing, clearly a group effort, is well-known behavior, not limited to colonial species; the more birds participating in the mobbing, the more effective it is at driving off the predator. Therefore, it has been theorized that the larger number of individuals available for vigilance and defense makes the colony a safer place for the individual birds nesting there. More pairs of eyes and ears are available to raise the alarm and rise to the occasion. Another suggestion is that colonies act as information centers and birds that have not found good foraging sites are able to follow others, who have fared better, to find food. This makes sense for foragers because the food source is one that can be locally abundant. This hypothesis would explain why the lesser kestrel, which feeds on insects, breeds in colonies, while the related common kestrel, which feeds on larger prey, is not. Colonial behaviour has its costs as well. It has been noted that parasitism by haematozoa is higher in colon ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2020 08:21:15 -0500 From: "CVS Opinion Requested" Subject: BONUS: $50 CVS Gift Card Opportunity BONUS: $50 CVS Gift Card Opportunity http://bioenergycode.icu/lGA7nuDxr0BHkJJK7puuEqa_1v7_-zU2fblwykQK7031b2Qt http://bioenergycode.icu/sCdgNw5MO2fVVZcMCvkDancBMRNpzngSwP9onZC9h9vEpp8W tilizer. Over-exploitation can be devastating to a colony, or even to an entire population of a colonial species. For example, there was once a large seabird known as the great auk, which nested in colonies in the North Atlantic. Eggs and birds were used for a variety of purposes. Beginning in the 16th century, seafarers took the birds in especially great numbers to fill ships' larders, and by the mid-19th century, the great auk was extinct. Likewise, the short-tailed albatross of the North Pacific was heavily harvested at what seems to have been its primary colony on Torishima Island. Millions of birds were killed in less than two decades at the end of the 19th century. The species survives, though endangered. In North America, the extermination of the highly gregarious passenger pigeon has been well documented. The birds were hunted as if inexhaustible. Case in point: in 1871, in Wisconsin, an estimated 136 million pigeons nested in a dense congregation over a wide area; thousands of people were drawn to hunt the birds, shipping the squab to market by rail. The passenger pigeon is a famous example of a familiar bird going extinct in modern times. The use of seabird droppings as fertilizer, or guano, began with the Indigenous Peruvians, who collected it from sites along the coast of South America, such as the Chincha Islands. When, after the Spanish Conquest, the value of this fertilizer became known to the wider world, collection increased to the point where the supply nearly ran out, and other sources of guano had to be fou ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2020 06:55:16 -0500 From: "**CleanAir Pro**l" Subject: Ready to Breathe Better and Healthier Air? Ready to Breathe Better and Healthier Air? http://offermarket.icu/-uyhAMQ4jriu6Msd_QCCu5lgNb8kKYshV0Nu3ynxkwl9Sw52 http://offermarket.icu/t3213Kdkv_6Igup5ZwF8SMXlXvqNcRGeGt4QoxVjUoHqvbmQ rds and it has been suggested that blood parasites might have shaped adaptations such as larger organs in the immune system and life-history traits. Other costs include brood parasitism and competition for food and territory. Colony size is a factor in the ecological function of colony nesting. In a larger colony, increased competition for food can make it harder for parents to feed their chicks. The benefits and drawbacks for birds of nesting in groups seem to be highly situational. Although scientists have hypothesized about the advantages of group nesting in terms of enabling group defensive behavior, escape from predation by being surrounded by neighbors (called the selfish herd hypothesis), as well as escaping predators through sheer numbers, in reality, each of these functions evidently depends on a number of factors. Clearly, there can be safety in numbers, but there is some doubt about whether it balances out against the tendency for conspicuous breeding colonies to attract predators, and some suggest that colonial breeding can actually make birds more vulnerable. At a common tern colony in Minnesota, a study of spotted sandpipers observed to nest near the tern colony showed that the sandpipers that nested nearest the colony seemed to gain some protection from mammalian predators, but avian predators were apparently attracted to the colony and the sandpipers nesting there were actually more vulnerable. In a study of a least tern colony in Connecticut, nocturnal avian predators in the form of black-crowned night herons and great horned owls were observed to repeatedly invade a colony, flying into the middle of the colony and meeting no resistance. For seabirds, the location of colonies on islands, which are inaccessible to terrestrial predators, is an obvious advantage. Islands where terrestrial predators have arrived in the form of rats, cats, foxes, etc., have devastated island seabird colonies. One well-studied case of this phenomenon has been the effect on common murre colonies on islands in Alaska, where foxes were introduced for fur farming. Human use Eggs collected from a nesting bird colony on Laysan island. Early 1900s. Colony-nesting birds have been used by humans as a source of food in the form of eggs and meat, down for bedding, feathers for quill pens, and guano for fertilizer. Over-exploitation can be devastating to a colony, or even to an entire pop ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2020 07:00:40 -0500 From: "Wi-Fi Coverage" <360-Degree@nerveshield.buzz> Subject: Upgrade your home-internet experience with the WiFiBooster Pro Upgrade your home-internet experience with the WiFiBooster Pro http://nerveshield.buzz/oVMpSTO293FkCJLvMyaZcFk7RTBJ3hgnwN3AFbET8J6ZEtO2 http://nerveshield.buzz/BGNefDMmlVxwVq9owQvDwzkzVXJdI54r_sHEe6bJ1YT_EJx9 re worshipped, and the goddess Bastet often depicted in cat form, sometimes taking on the war-like aspect of a lioness. The Greek historian Herodotus reported that killing a cat was forbidden, and when a household cat died, the entire family mourned and shaved their eyebrows. Families took their dead cats to the sacred city of Bubastis, where they were embalmed and buried in sacred repositories. Herodotus expressed astonishment at the domestic cats in Egypt, because he had only ever seen wildcats. Ancient Greeks and Romans kept weasels as pets, which were seen as the ideal rodent-killers. The earliest unmistakable evidence of the Greeks having domestic cats comes from two coins from Magna Graecia dating to the mid-fifth century BC showing Iokastos and Phalanthos, the legendary founders of Rhegion and Taras respectively, playing with their pet cats. The usual ancient Greek word for 'cat' was ailouros, meaning 'thing with the waving tail'. Cats are rarely mentioned in ancient Greek literature. Aristotle remarked in his History of Animals that "female cats are naturally lecherous." The Greeks later syncretized their own goddess Artemis with the Egyptian goddess Bastet, adopting Bastet's associations with cats and ascribing them to Artemis. In Ovid's Metamorphoses, when the deities flee to Egypt and take animal forms, the goddess Diana turns into a cat. Cats eventually displaced ferrets as the pest control of choice because they were more pleasant to have around the house and were more enthusiastic hunters of mice. During the Middle Ages, many of Artemis's associations with cats were grafted onto the Virgin Mary. Cats are often shown in icons of Annunciation and of the Holy Family and, accor ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #5557 **********************************************