After our hike, riding home, 2 hours later, I take a 24-second video from the passenger-side window at exactly the same spot:
One might casually and shallowly dream of needing to eat constantly, just to maintain a healthy weight. Perhaps you'd love to take a pill that would put you in this predicament. But imagine living like this!
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What do you think they're eating?
Kinda limu emuish.
Just feelin' the grass... and the tasty, tasty worms.
After our hike, riding home, 2 hours later, I take a 24-second video from the passenger-side window at exactly the same spot.
The sandhill cranes' prior discussion...
"Where are we having dinner?"
"Again? You know, if anyone ever wanted to assassinate you, you wouldn't be too hard to find.
You have no way of knowing if the cranes left to conduct some flight lessons and then returned for more food. You are assuming facts not in evidence. BTW, they may also be an entirely different family.
My morbidly obese sister has been doing excellently on Zepbound. She is eagerly looking forward to when she can eat vast quantities again.
Cranes are interesting birds. In terms of their general bodily characteristics -- long legs, long necks, long pointed beaks -- they're wading birds living on fish and frogs like the herons. And indeed they do live like herons, wading in the shallows, spearing small fish and tadpoles, but mostly in their winter havens. In the breeding season most cranes seek grasslands where they nest and raise their hatchlings, living mainly on an omnivorous diet of seeds, insects, and the occasional lizard or mole. The curious thing is despite looking like herons and exploiting the wetlands like herons, they are only remotely related to the heron family (Ardeidae). The last common ancestor of the Ardeidae and the Gruidae (cranes, coots, and rails) lived in the Mesozoic. Another curious thing is some members of the heron family, the egrets especially, live like cranes on the grasslands, eating the same mixed diet -- parallel morphologies and parallel ecologies. The reason they can coexist is behavioral. Cranes migrate to exploit temperate zone prairies and steppes, whereas egrets are year-around denizens of tropical and subtropical grasslands and savannas.
As far as I know, only humans make significant changes to the food they find before they consume it. I know raccoons often wash their food, and dung beetles do a lot of work, but don't really change it much.
I know we have all wondered about how long an animal stays alive inside the stomach of a heron which often swallows its prey whole and alive. I've watched them swallow goffers with giant teeth and claws and an unparalleled ability to burrow, and wondered how often a heron is killed by it's own lunch.
I have a pond in my backyard full of goldfish, koi, turtles, minnows, etc., and I spend most days standing guard against a Great Blue Heron that comes by every couple days. I don't think, he's ever gotten anything, but I can't do this job 24/7. I've tried every deterrent and he still lands on my house and flies down next to the pond before I run screaming and throwing whatever is in my hand.
Low density vegan with a motley supplement of bugs to fill in the dietary holes. It's all carbon-based... organic.
I've tried every deterrent...
Find a falconer and invite him to dinner.
Bagoh20: megawatt laser. Just a hint.
Just a hint
Enough to warm your coffee.
We get measure intake by the day. Wild animals get to measure by the season, like pretty much nothing in winter, binge in not winter..
Well, if they weren't spending their time finding food, they'd be standing around on one leg. Its not like they're pondering the meaning life, or engaging in a group discussion.
Cranes live a suprisingly long time.
Chimpanzees have to eat for a good portion of the day. Though actually, most of that time is spent chewing. Richard Wrangham has suggested that cooking made us human. It tenderizes food and releases nutrients. So we could spend a lot less time foraging and chewing. And we needed a much smaller intestinal system. So a lot more energy could go to the brain, and a lot more time for thinking stuff up.
"So a lot more energy could go to the brain, and a lot more time for thinking stuff up."
Not to mention organizing gunts and pant-hoots into language.
bagoh20 said...
"I have a pond in my backyard...guard against a Great Blue Heron...but I can't do this job 24/7. I've tried every deterrent..."
Depending on how close your neighbors are, my hubby usually suggests the SSS method.
We used to have a pair of sandhill cranes hang around our farm for quite a few years. They did not come back this year. I think they finally figured out that there is something in our former pasture that is eating their babies. I always felt bad seeing the babies and then they were no more.
WTH
LOL. Gary Larson comic. Cranes saw you comin' and you fell for it.
They still laffin' at you guys
What? Ann lets Meade drive?
Gotcha.
Roger Sweeny said...
Chimpanzees have to eat for a good portion of the day. Though actually, most of that time is spent chewing. Richard Wrangham has suggested that cooking made us human. It tenderizes food and releases nutrients. So we could spend a lot less time foraging and chewing. And we needed a much smaller intestinal system. So a lot more energy could go to the brain, and a lot more time for thinking stuff up.
It wasn't cooking. It was switching to a diet of red meat.
The nutrient density of red meat is what allowed our brain:gut ratio to grow. Animals that eat meat invariably have smaller GI's than animals that eat plants.
We ate meat for millions of years and our brain : gut ratio grew. Then we domesticated agriculture about 10 years ago and reversed this process.
I was in Costco buying food for the chickens and rabbits today and as I was walking around I couldn't help but think how most humans have decided they would rather be cows and their diets are making their guts expand back to chimp/gorilla ratios.
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