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I often watch a PBS show called Nature; the last episode I viewed was about the White Tail Deer. Again, it's surprising how fascinating such shows can be. And how much one can learn from them.
As most dedicated hunters know, the whitetail deer's best defense is it's ability to smell. Their noses are equipped with 297 million olfactory receptors, which allow them to smell everything in the woods. To put their ability into perspective, humans have only 5 million olfactory receptors. So to sum it up, the whitetail deer can smell 60 times better than a human.
I also learned that a White Tail buck grows a completely new set of antlers every year, and that the new antlers grow an inch every 2 days.
White Tail Deer
Last night I watched the show I mentioned in yesterday's blog entry which was titled simply "Salinger" which started at 9 P.M. and ended about 11:15. Much too late for me to still be up. But when I was watching it there was no question of stopping. No question about it.
Now I will have to look up my old copy of Catcher In the Rye and reread it... again.
Tonight that same PBS channel will be presenting on Nature an episode about a new animal called a Coywolf. Neither a coyote nor a wolf. But a strange mixture of the two, I am guessing.
Thankfully it begins at 8 o'clock and lasts only an hour.
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Did You Know . . .?
Recently collected data has shown that political conservatives on average report being more easily disgusted than liberals.
source:
The New York Times
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HISTORICAL EVENT
The fight over whether to criminalize abortion has grown increasingly fierce in recent years, but opinion polls suggest that most Americans prefer that women be able to have abortions in the early stages of pregnancy, free of any government interference.
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WORD FOR TODAY
crepuscular
adjective
1. Of or like twilight; dim.
2. Zoology Becoming active at twilight or before sunrise, as do bats and certain insects and birds.
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CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS
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I hate to say this, but I'll repeat it: After death, all we know that you do is stink.
--Jack Kevorkian
NASA TV
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