Dr. Bonnie Mallard discusses vitamin D needs and deficiency rates among certain animals, and why it’s important.
Dogs can’t get much vitamin D from sunlight because their hair covers their skin. They used to get D from eating the organs of animals they hunted. Now, they’re getting the same diseases as humans, because of vitamin D deficiency.
I would add: Vitamin D laboratory blood tests say 100-150 ng/ml is the normal range for dogs. Most dogs are probably severely deficient, perhaps at 10-20 ng/ml, below even the normal range (30-100 ng/ml) for even humans.
You are looking at a microscopic image of the legs of an insect called a leafhopper. You would expect to find gears in a factory, or somewhere manmade, but in nature where scientists say life just evolved randomly? How did evolution “create” such a clever machine? It didn’t. It took a mind. A thinking living Creator. God!
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These insects, which mainly hop around on European climbing ivy, are only a couple of millimeters in length, but with one mighty jump they can spring forward more than a meter at a velocity up to 3.9 meters per second (nearly nine miles per hour). As noted in Popular Mechanics, “In 2 milliseconds it has bulleted skyward, accelerating at nearly 400 g’s—a rate more than 20 times what a human body can withstand.”
The Mulchatna herd was once among the largest in Alaska, with a historic range spanning from Dillingham to Bethel to Lake Iliamna. Today, the herd has dwindled to roughly 12,000; the Department of Fish and Game estimates a healthy population would range from 30,000 to 80,000 caribou.
Alfonso Doce Rolling won’t crush that bird, as someone who has hunted with Golden Eagles, I know that the moment the pronghorn goes to the ground, the eagle will go for the head! I have seen it with mountain goats jumping and rolling down the mountain and the eagle trying to reach for the eyes and throat with the talons to get total control over the prey and kill it. Golden Eagles also hunt wolves.
AMAZING, honest and detailed description of what the race was like, and how difficult! Most mushers are not this open. Even cries! I’ve never heard such an incredible interview before.
His dogs live with him in the cabin (37:30)! “They’re all friends.” Wonderfully unconventional, the way it should be! Susan Butcher used to allow one or more dogs in the cabin, in rotation.
“I enjoy the struggle, alone at the homestead with the dogs. … It’s survival and dogs.” “You have to want to work pretty much all the time.”
“Focus forward. … Positive attitude is key. … If I get upset every time something breaks, I would be in trouble.”
Spoken by John Dutton (Kevin Costner) on the show Yellowstone, to a protester (Piper Perabo) demonstrating against cattle ranching and raising beef for food.
SUMMER: We’re here protesting the existence of a state-sponsored police force that protects industrialized animal farming and the mass murder of millions of animals every year.
COSTNER: You ever plow a field, Summer? To plant the quinoa or sorghum or whatever the hell it is you eat. You kill everything on the ground and under it. You kill every snake, every frog, every mouse, mole, vole, worm, quail… You kill them all. So, I guess the only real question is: how cute does an animal have to be before you care if it dies to feed you?
Fauci under fire over report alleging NIAID spent $400k on research infecting dogs with parasites
The White Coat Waste Project said they filed a FOIA request, revealing the information
Justin Goodman, a WCW Project vice president:
“They bought 28 healthy Beagles. The NIH website says they choose Beagles because they’re ‘small and docile.’ That means they’re easy to abuse. They took these 28 Beagles and infected them with parasites…, strapping devices to them that allow flies eat them alive, basically, give them parasites. And then they killed the dogs….”
Fox Nation host Lara Logan also joined the discussion, as well as her own pet dog, Honey, seated on her lap. …
Dr. Fauci is increasingly becoming Dr. Evil. Over and over again, the decisions that he made that have just destroyed millions of lives all over the world are becoming more apparent by day,” Logan added.
“She was really a wonderful elephant. A beautiful elephant with a rough history but an indomitable spirit. A big, big personality,” said Jackie Gai, Maggie’s veterinarian in her final years. “She had a beautiful face with long eyelashes. A very sweet and expressive face.” …
Her new home was a sanctuary in San Andreas, Calif., run by the Performing Animal Welfare Society. Dr. Gai, director of veterinary services for PAWS, said Maggie flourished in her new habitat, with acres of hills to roam and mud to wallow in. And Maggie had a best friend: Lulu, a retired zoo elephant from San Francisco.
“They refused to be apart. Everywhere Maggie went, Lulu went, and vice versa,” Gai said. “So it’s just what I would say was the deepest of friendships.”
Gai said Maggie seemed to choose the place of her death. On Tuesday, Maggie lay down under a favorite oak tree. With Lulu by her side and a caregiver nearby, Maggie drew her last breath.
While African elephants in the wild can live to 65, Gai said Maggie exceeded the median life expectancy for a captive elephant.
“She was a good friend to her elephant friends, and she was lucky to have a caring zoo director who made the right decision for her,” Gai said. “And we are honored to have had the opportunity to care for her all these years.”
Gai said Lulu seems sad and is getting extra attention.
Maggie’s care was funded for several years by game-show host and animal advocate Bob Barker, who also reimbursed the Air Force for Maggie’s flight from Alaska.
