Year Of The Carnivore 2009 17Download File >>> =2sKV0x2011 Year of the Carnivore 2010 18. Posts about Year of the Carnivore. New year's 2011 the only big carnivore in this park is the cougar.... Cougar watch... Category: Carnivore: Cougar (Felix ) Season: Year of the Carnivore Location: New York, New York, USA Duration: 17 videos added this year, duration: 3,7 sec. vide. [vodpod video=35758369]It's not about quantity but quality. If a predator is looking for an animal it is important that it does so in a way that causes the animal to make physical contact with it. The rubbing of fur or skin can be very effective in causing trauma, whether it is a natural rubbing or scratching caused by the predator. Trauma can be very effective in reducing fitness. If the animal is too injured to avoid the predator then it is on its own.Natural: What if a predator such as a lynx, cat or wolf was stalking a fawn?This is a small case study and may not be applicable in larger parks. But, once a predator enters a park in an area where the fawn is, it is important that it makes a physical contact with the fawn. If this can be avoided, avoid it. In one case the predator was seen and documented rubbing the fawn with the back of it's paw. It was observed that this caused the fawn to move around for 1.5 hours until it was tired and went to sleep. The predator moved on in search of another victim. Also, the rubbing of fur or skin does not have to be intentional. A predator may unintentionally rub against a small animal. This could be a very stressful experience for the fawn. If that happens, the fawn will need to be monitored for at least 3 months to be sure it survives. That experience will potentially reduce the chances that the fawn will try to avoid the predator and outrun it, instead it will allow it to run away or even find a protected place where the predator cannot get it.These are important distinctions when discussing bear hunts and trophy hunting in Wisconsin and other jurisdictions. Trophy hunting and bear hunting are not the same thing.Trophy hunting is usually involving a small predator which is hunting and feeding on a large prey animal. Trophy hunters often are not concerned with the health of the predator or the prey. Trophy animals are usually harvested for their trophy heads, claws and antlers. These trophies ee730c9e81
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Year of the Carnivore is a 2009 Canadian romantic comedy film about a grocery store detective with a crush on a man who rejects her because she has too little sexual experience. It stars Cristin Milioti, Mark Rendall, Will Sasso, Ali Liebert, and Luke Camilleri.
Sammy Smalls, a 21-year-old tomboy, works as a grocery store detective at Big Apple Food Town. She tracks down shoplifters and transfers them to her boss Dirk, who beats up the shoplifters as punishment. Sammy dislikes her job, but she can't quit, as she would have to move back in with her overbearing parents. Sammy meets and becomes infatuated with Eugene Zaslavsky, an equally quirky musician who performs outside her grocery store. The two develop a friendship that culminates into a disastrous one-night stand. Eugene, unimpressed by Sammy's immaturity and sexual inexperience, suggests they maintain an open relationship. Sammy concocts a plan to gain sexual experience to impress Eugene, which leads her into many sexual misadventures.[2]
The Oxford component of the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition assessed changes in weight and BMI over a five-year period in meat-eating, fish-eating, vegetarian, and vegan men and women in the United Kingdom. During the five years of the study, mean annual weight gain was lowest among individuals who had changed to a diet containing fewer animal foods. The study also reported a significant difference in age-adjusted BMI, with the meat eaters having the highest BMI and vegans the lowest.16 Similar results were reported by the Adventist Health Study.17
Interestingly, 53% of the control group had progression of atherosclerosis. After 5 years, stenosis in the experimental group decreased from 37.8% to 34.7% (a 7.9% relative improvement). The control group experienced a progression of stenosis from 46.1% to 57.9% (a 27.7% relative worsening). Low-density lipoprotein had decreased 40% at 1 year and was maintained at 20% less than baseline after 5 years. These reductions are similar to results achieved with lipid-lowering medications.10,11
A study by researchers at the University of Toronto and the Royal Ontario Museum sheds new light on a previously unclassifiable 500 million-year-old squid-like carnivore known as Nectocaris pteryx. googletag.cmd.push(function() googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1449240174198-2'); ); "We think that this extremely rare creature is an early ancestor of squids, octopuses, and other cephalopods", says Martin Smith of U of T's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB) and the Department of Natural History at the ROM. "This is significant because it means that primitive cephalopods were around much earlier than we thought, and offers a reinterpretation of the long-held origins of this important group of marine animals."The new interpretation became possible with the discovery of 91 new fossils that were collected by the ROM from the famous Burgess Shale site (Yoho National Park) in the UNESCO World Heritage Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks, British Columbia over the past three decades, and examined by PhD student Martin Smith along with U of T EEB and Geology assistant professor and ROM palaeontologist Jean-Bernard Caron."Previously, all knowledge of Nectocaris came from a lone specimen described in 1976. Due to the ambiguous characteristics evident on that specimen, Nectocaris has remained unclassified until now," says Smith, lead author of the study published this week in Nature. "Our study reveals that Nectocaris is similar to known members of the modern cephalopod group, which includes squid, octopus, cuttlefish and the nautilus, as well as common fossils such as ammonites and belemnites, which are now extinct.""We know very little about the relationships between the major groups of molluscs, and the early history of the group," says Smith. "Fossils like Nectocaris help us to map out how the groups alive today might be related, and how they evolved. This tells us something about how biodiversity originated in the past, and helps us to understand the rich tapestry of life today."The new specimens, between two and five centimetres long, show that Nectocaris was kite-shaped and flattened from top to bottom, with large, stalked eyes and a long pair of grasping tentacles, which the researchers believe helped it to hunt for and consume prey. Smith and Caron further suggest that the creature swum using its large lateral fins, and, like modern cephalopods, probably used its nozzle-like funnel to accelerate by jet propulsion. "Some of the specimens' large gills were choked with mud, suggesting that the animals were fossilized after being caught in an underwater mud-flow," says Smith. This is a Nectocaris pteryx from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale. Credit: Jean-Bernard Caron (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle []).push(); "Our findings mean that cephalopods originated 30 million years earlier than we thought, and much closer to the first appearance of complex animals in the 'Cambrian explosion'" says Smith. Nectocaris does not have a mineralized shell, a fact that surprised the scientists. "It's long been thought that cephalopods evolved in the Late Cambrian period, when gradual modifications to the shells of creeping, snail-like animals made them able to float. Nectocaris shows us that the first cephalopods actually started swimming without the aid of gas-filled shells. Shells evolved much later, probably in response to increased levels of competition and predation in the Late Cambrian.""Modern cephalopods are very complex, with intricate organs and startling intelligence. We go from very simple pre-Cambrian life-forms to something as complex as a cephalopod in the geological blink of an eye, which illustrates just how quickly evolution can produce complexity."Smith says Nectocaris proves that there are still surprises in the fossil record. "Fossils can only ever tell us a part of the story," he says. "Exceptional soft-bodied fossils such as Nectocaris, combined with advances in developmental and molecular biology, still have a lot to bring to the table, and I'm sure that they will continue to help to refine and replace our current hypotheses." More information:The findings are presented in a paper titled "Primitive soft-bodied cephalopods from the Cambrian", to be published May 27, 2010 in Nature. Provided byUniversity of Toronto
I have to be honest, when I first heard about this I rolled my eyes big time. The biggest reason is that we have zero scientific evidence that supports the carnivore diet (to be clear, testimonials are not scientific). On the flip side, we have a lot of scientific evidence that supports increased consumption of whole plant foods.
Foods to eat on the carnivore diet: beef, pork, lamb, chicken, turkey, fish, shellfish, eggs, lard, butter, organ meats, bone marrow, broth, and salt.Foods that may or may not be allowed on a carnivore diet: milk, yogurt, cheese, coffee, tea, wine, and spirits.Foods not allowed on the carnivore diet: fruits, veggies, seeds, nuts, beans, grains, and beer.
Carnivore dieters will argue that the evidence is that humans began to succeed as a species when we incorporated more meat into our diets about two and half million years ago. (1) First, this is a theory and not scientific proof. This theory better argues the point that humans evolved to eat some meat, not only meat.
Without studies, the next best thing is to look at traditional indigenous diets to see if there are any that provide insight to a meat only lifestyle. Unsurprisingly, there are no groups of indigenous people that are 100% carnivore. The closest we have is a traditional Inuit diet, made up largely of whole sea mammals (seal and walrus including blubber, skin, and blood), as well as trout, Arctic char, caribou, goose, and duck. The traditional Inuit diet does include plant foods in the form of berries, seaweed, and nuts during the summer months. (2) 2ff7e9595c
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