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The Ostrich
Although it is the largest single cell in nature, an ostrich egg is less than 1½ per cent of the weight of the mother. A wren’s egg, by comparison, is 13 per cent of its weight.
He ate them, although only once.
Charles Darwin was driven by gastronomic, as well as scientific, curiosity. While half-heartedly reading Divinity at Cambridge University, he became a member of the ‘Glutton’ or ‘Gourmet Club’ which met once a week and actively sought to eat animals not normally found on menus.
Darwin’s son, Francis, commenting on his father’s letters, noted that the Gourmet Club enjoyed, among other things, hawk and bittern, but that ‘their zeal broke down over an old brown owl,’ which they found ‘indescribable’.
Over the years, Darwin sharpened up considerably in the academic arena and lost his faith in God, but he never lost his taste for the allure of an interesting menu.
During the voyage of the Beagle, he ate armadillos which, he said, ‘taste & look like duck’ and a chocolate-coloured rodent that was ‘the best meat I ever tasted’ – probably an agouti, whose family name is Dasyproctidae, Greek for ‘hairy bum’. In Patagonia, he tucked into a plate of puma (the mountain lion Felis concolor) and thought it tasted rather like veal. In fact, he originally thought it was veal.
Later, after exhaustively searching Patagonia for the Lesser Rhea, Darwin realised he had already eaten one for his Christmas dinner, while moored off Port Desire in 1833. The bird had been shot by Conrad Martens, the ship’s artist.
Darwin assumed it was one of the common Greater Rheas, or ‘ostriches’, as he called them, and only realised his mistake when the plates were being cleared: ‘It was cooked and eaten before my memory returned. Fortunately the head, neck, legs, wings, many of the larger feathers, and a large part of the skin, had been preserved.’ He sent the bits back to the Zoological Society in London and the Rhea darwinii was named after him.
In the Galapagos, Darwin lived on iguana (Conolophus subcristatus) and, on James Island, wolfed down a few helpings of giant tortoise. Not realising the importance of giant tortoises to his later evolutionary theory, forty-eight specimens were loaded aboard the Beagle. Darwin and his shipmates proceeded to eat them, throwing the shells overboard as they finished.
A Phylum Feast is a shared meal using as many different species as possible, eaten by biologists on 12 February to celebrate Darwin’s birthday.
Any of them above the seventh floor.
Higher than the seventh floor, it doesn’t really matter how far the cat falls, as long as its oxygen holds out.
Like many small animals, cats have a non-fatal terminal velocity – in cats this is about 100 kph or 60 mph. Once they relax, they orientate themselves, spread out, and parachute to earth like a squirrel.
There are cats on record that have fallen thirty storeys or more without ill effects. One cat is known to have survived a forty-six-storey fall, and there is even evidence of a cat deliberately thrown out of a Cessna aircraft at 244 metres (800 feet) that survived.
A 1987 paper in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association studied 132 cases of cats that had fallen out of high-rise windows in New York. On average they fell 5.5 storeys. Ninety per cent survived, though many suffered serious injuries. The data showed that injuries rose proportionally to the number of storeys fallen – up to seven storeys. Above seven storeys, the number of injuries per cat sharply declined. In other words, the further the cat fell, the better its chances.
According to the bible, either seven or fourteen. As a "clean" animal, sheep were to be taken by seven, however, depending how it's translated, it could be seven pairs (a male and female).
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None. There has never been a U.S. President that has been a single child.
In the 20th. century or at any other time.
Before commercially made douches were available to women in the late 60s, what product did many women use that was not intended as a douche. This douching method was widely used in American brothels at the turn of the century to wash out unwanted substances and to keep the working girls fresh.
This would be a ready to consume product and not a ingredient or product you would add to food.
You are right. Coca Cola was once used as a douche to flush out the custard deposits from clients at houses of ill repute. Soon the average American woman was singing Things go better with Coke as well. The carbonated liquid flushed out pussies leaving them refreshed.
Give Brill a Coke on me! Will you drink it here or have it as an enema?
