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  • Just like the Three Dog Bakery founding canines–Gracie, Dottie, and Sarah, the store mascots and our entire crew stand salivatingly proud behind each and every treat that we bake for our dogs and yours!
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  • Mr. Quakers is making his rounds trying to locate some food.
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  • This photo was shot on the outside patio at Jimm’y Food & Cocktail’s in Minnetonka, Minnesota.
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  • The white-tailed doe realized that by tilting the bird seed holder the food would fall out a little.
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  • If your thinking Carnivals and Fairs you have to have the Funnel Cake!
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  • Tasty biscuits made with a special blend of low fat apple and oatmeal
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  • The white-tailed doe telling us exactly how she feels about us watching her eat.
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  • A Cold October Brew And A Little Daisy For Autumn Color
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  • Took this photo of the Hard Rock Cafe at Universal Studios while on vacation in Orlando, Florida with my lovely wife.
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  • Not quite a cookie, not quite a brownie, but with the best elements of both. They're called Brooksters
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  • My very first attempt at photographing landscapes during the evening.<br />
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Fulton’s Crab House is located in Downtown Disney. I took this photograph last night during our first official day of vacation in Florida.
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  • A great little place that I've totally missed over the years. I ate here today and had a burger that was awesome. The fries were also the big thick kind, not the little dairy sissy kind. The burger was thick and juicy and taste like it was grilled over wood. The place is small... There's even a little closet sized room that has a barber chair in it and apparently on Thurs afternoons people come to get a haircut. Quaint eh?
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  • A chocolate dipped fruit basket my wife got me from Edible Arrangements
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  • This starling and groundhog disagree over who should get the last bite of the peanut
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  • These rawhides are made in the Midwest and are all-natural, cleaned with peroxide rather than formaldehyde to avoid causing upset tummies. They are available in unflavored and in natural flavors including chicken, beef, ham, peanut butter and vanilla.
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  • Oven-Baked Beg-als for Dogs. Carob chips and worth the begging
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  • A little bit of a different option, but make a great snack that's easy to hold and eat walking through the fairgrounds
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  • The white-tailed doe trying to decide the best way to eat the bird seed.
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  • A robin is gathering a quick meal on the trails
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  • OK, Who wants a slice of some yummy pepperoni pizza.
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  • This guy can be found at the Rainforest Cafe at the Downtown Disney District along with many other jungle animals.
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  • The witch at downtown Disney in Orlando, Florida.
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  • Liz's has what are perhaps the best burgers in MO, and an ever changing selection of great home cooked soups and chili that you keep going back for.
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  • All-Natural Dog Training Treats - Small in size but BIG in apple and oatmeal flavors! Perfect for training or for small dogs.
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  • Reward your dogs with our All Natural, Oven Baked, Healthy Dog Biscuits The oven baked biscuits are made with all natural, premium ingredients including tasty grains, vegetables, fruits and herbs.
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  • A beautiful Tropical Mai Tai from Red Robin.
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  • Mel's Drive-In at Universal Studios in Florid. Wish we had diners like this one.
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  • An Autumn Bouquet Of Colors and Aroma In This Seasonal Wine Shot
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  • I guess the white-tailed doe has decided bird seed will be dessert.
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  • Prairie dog hanging out and eating carrots on a beautiful day at the Saint Louis Zoo.
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  • A Tufted Titmouse standing on a seed treat defending it like he is king of the mountain
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  • This goose and baby goslings are sharing food while swimming around the docks at Maynard’s on Lake Minnetonka.
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  • The prairie dog finally has a full belly and is completely exhausted from dealing with starlings trying to steal its food. ..So it's time to take a nap.
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  • A prairie dog just enjoying some food at the Saint louis Zoo.
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  • The starling is trying really hard to steal that food from the prairie dog.
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  • Starling brings in reinforcements to try and get the food away from the prairie dog.
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  • The starling trying to steal the prairie dogs food.
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  • A starling bird comes along and starts trying to steal the prairie dogs food.
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  • The starling just about got the food from the prairie dog.
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  • The starling is still trying to steal food from the prairie dog.
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  • The starling determined to steal the prairie dogs food.
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  • A Heron flies above the water with a fresh catch
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  • A male Wood Duck rocks in the water mimicking a rocking horse, putting on a vibrant show.<br />
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Wood Ducks forage in the water by taking food from the surface and up-ending to reach food underneath. They also graze on land. Pairs form on the wintering grounds, and males attract females by showing off their brightly colored plumage. Females demonstrate strong fidelity to the sites where they hatched (philopatry), and they lead their mates back to those sites in the spring.<br />
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Male Wood Ducks are flamboyant in breeding plumage, practically unmistakable with their brightly colored chestnut and yellow bodies, green droop-crested heads, bright red bills, and bold white barring on their faces and bodies. Females are drabber, with subtle iridescence on overall grayish-brown bodies, spotted flanks, and a white teardrop surrounding each eye. Juveniles appear similar to females, as do non-breeding males in eclipse plumage (from June to September), although they have the red bill and white facial markings.
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  • Few sounds symbolize American patriotism like the piercing shrill of a bald eagle. But just like George Washington and his cherry tree, that majestic call - is a myth. The screech associated with the bald eagle, in fact, belongs to a different bird. It's a cry that's synonymous with America's national bird. But there's a problem. If you were to look up at the bird making that sound in real life you wouldn't see a bald eagle. Unfortunately for the bald eagle, it has like a little cackling type of a laugh that's not really very impressive for the bird.<br />
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The hole in the tongue is not for swallowing, it's for breathing. The bird trachea (wind pipe) comes up through the tongue. The esophogus is behind that. This is very functional, actually. The eagle's tongue also has sort of a barb on it. When they are swallowing something large, like a fish, they will stick out their tongue so the barbs go past the morsel, then pull their tongue back in. The tips of the barb will pull the food back into their throat, where it can be swallowed. If an eagle's windpipe were behind the tongue like a human, they wouuld be unable to breath with a large piece of prey or whole fish in their their throat.  A situation like that is where the tongue comes into play. They will stick out their tongues to allow the barbs to get the bite of food, but while the tongue is extended, they will open the hole in their tongue to take a breath of air.
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  • The starling is stalking the prairie dog while planning it's course of action.
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  • Two pink flamingos highlighted in blue and purple fantasy lighting, taken at the Saint Louis Zoo.<br />
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Flamingos often stand on one leg, the other leg tucked beneath the body. The reason for this behavior is not fully understood. Recent research indicates that standing on one leg may allow the birds to conserve more body heat, given that they spend a significant amount of time wading in cold water. However, the behavior also takes place in warm water. As well as standing in the water, flamingos may stamp their webbed feet in the mud to stir up food from the bottom.<br />
Young flamingos hatch with grayish reddish plumage, but adults range from light pink to bright red due to aqueous bacteria and beta-Carotene obtained from their food supply. A well-fed, healthy flamingo is more vibrantly colored and thus a more desirable mate; a white or pale flamingo, however, is usually unhealthy or malnourished. Captive flamingos are a notable exception; many turn a pale pink as they are not fed carotene at levels comparable to the wild
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  • This carp swam up to this cute little gosling and tried to eat its webbed food for lunch. These little gosling squealed and the big geese came to its defense.
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  • Customers at Maynard's Restaurant on Lake Minnetonka in Minnesota were trying to feed geese and gosling’s bread when carp kept surfacing and stealing the food.
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  • This photo makes me laugh. I swear this fish looks like it is having a serious take with the goose about not sharing food.
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  • This prairie dog was just trying to eat and this little bird just kept trying to take the food right out of the prairie dogs mouth.  It was really funny to watch and the prairie dog did not seem to care.
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  • This is my first attempt at Food Photography. I purchased this cupcake at Heaven Scent Bakery located in O'Fallon, MO.. <br />
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Heaven Scent Bakery has delicious donuts, cakes, cupcakes, pies and so much more.
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  • More than any other ape, chimpanzees use tools. They use sticks to fish for insects, poking the twigs into the holes of ant or termite mounds and pulling them out, covered with wiggling food. Chimps use stones to crack open hard-shelled nuts or fruits. They also use leaves as sponges, either to soak up drinking water or to clean the body. And they use leafy twigs to keep away flies...What's even more interesting: we now know that not all chimpanzee communities use the same tools, or use them in the same way. Every community passes on its own customs from generation to generation. This shows that chimps have unique cultures, just like people do.
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  • Chipmunks are small, striped squirrels. All species of chipmunks are found in North America...This snapped this this little guy eating as we were walking along a trail in Grand Marais, Minnesota. They had several trays of food out feeding chipmunks and other animals.
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  • Mr. Junco Forages For Food In The Early Morning Light
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  • This Chimp tries to blend it with the trees at the Saint Louis Zoo.<br />
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More than any other ape, chimpanzees use tools. They use sticks to fish for insects, poking the twigs into the holes of ant or termite mounds and pulling them out, covered with wiggling food. Chimps use stones to crack open hard-shelled nuts or fruits. They also use leaves as sponges, either to soak up drinking water or to clean the body. And they use leafy twigs to keep away flies.<br />
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What's one of the first things you notice about chimpanzees? Probably their arms. These apes have very long, powerful arms and long-fingered hands - perfect for hanging around in trees. Chimps spend a lot of time in trees, where they do most of their feeding and nesting.
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  • The Ruby-throated Hummingbird does not show a strong preference for any particular color of feeder. Instead, it prefers specific feeder locations. uby-throated Hummingbirds normally place their nest on a branch of a deciduous or coniferous tree; however, these birds are accustomed to human habitation and have been known to nest on loops of chain, wire, and extension cords.<br />
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You can attract Ruby-throated Hummingbirds to your backyard by setting up hummingbird feeders or by planting tubular flowers. Make sugar water mixtures with about one-quarter cup of sugar per cup of water. Food coloring is unnecessary; table sugar is the best choice. Change the water before it grows cloudy or discolored and remember that during hot weather, sugar water ferments rapidly to produce toxic alcohol. Be careful about where you put your hummingbird feeders, as some cats have learned to lie in wait to catch visiting hummingbirds.<br />
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The Ruby-throated Hummingbird is a species of hummingbird. As with all hummingbirds, this species belongs to the Trochilidae family and is currently included in the Apodiformes order.
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  • A lonely Dark-eyed Junco Forages For Food In The Snow
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  • The Bald Eagle has been the national emblem of the United States since 1782 and a spiritual symbol for native people for far longer than that. These regal birds aren't really bald, but their white-feathered heads gleam in contrast to their chocolate-brown body and wings. Look for them soaring in solitude, chasing other birds for their food, or gathering by the hundreds in winter. Once endangered by hunting and pesticides, Bald Eagles have flourished under protection. <br />
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The Bald Eagle dwarfs most other raptors, including the Turkey Vulture and Red-tailed Hawk. It has a heavy body, large head, and long, hooked bill. In flight, a Bald Eagle holds its broad wings flat like a board. <br />
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Look for Bald Eagles near lakes, reservoirs, rivers, marshes, and coasts. For a chance to see large Bald Eagle congregations, check out wildlife refuges or large bodies of water in winter over much of the continent, or fish processing plants and dumpsters year-round in coastal Alaska and the Pacific Northwest.
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  • Enjoy affordably creative food and drink in a hip, fun, and artsy social hangout right in the heart of New Town! Groovy daily specials and Beatnik Brew make every fall in to Beatniks a wonderfully unique experience.
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  • The genus name is from the Greek echino, meaning hedgehog, an allusion to the spiny, brownish central disk. The flowers of Echinacea species are used to make an extremely popular herbal tea, purported to help strengthen the immune system; an extract is also available in tablet or liquid form in pharmacies and health food stores. Often cultivated, Purple Coneflower is a showy, easily grown garden plant.
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  • Common chicory is a somewhat woody, perennial herbaceous plant of the dandelion family Asteraceae, usually with bright blue flowers, rarely white or pink. Many varieties are cultivated for salad leaves, chicons, or roots, which are baked, ground, and used as a coffee substitute and food additive.
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  • The red panda, is a small arboreal mammal native to the eastern Himalayas and southwestern China and related to raccoons, skunks and weasels. It is the only extant species of the genus Ailurus and the family Ailuridae.<br />
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The red panda is a cousin of the raccoon, while the more famous giant panda is more closely related to bears. These engaging animals make their home in mountain forests and bamboo thickets, where they live in small groups or alone. They are active mainly at night and spend their days sleeping in trees, out of the reach of most predators. Red pandas are primarily vegetarians, with bamboo shoots a favorite food, but they also eat small animals.<br />
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The number of wild red pandas is declining as their bamboo forests are cleared for human development.<br />
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Did You Know That The extra "thumb" on a red panda's front paws is a modified wrist bone that allows the animal to easily grasp bamboo.
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  • The longwing butterflies have unusually long lifespans and high fecundity rates, which largely result from their augmented diet. Instead of surviving on food stores from the larval stage or solely sipping flower nectar, adult longwing butterflies are avid pollen eaters. These trait make them eminently suitable for butterfly farming and butterfly gardening. Also, Adult Longwings may live for several months, much longer than most butterflies.<br />
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The longwing butterflies are also known as Heliconians. They are brightly colored butterflies with long forewings. Once placed in their own family, they are now considered closely related to the fritillaries. Larvae of most longwings  feed on passion vines, and this host plant imparts noxious chemicals to the larvae which are carried over to the adult butterflies. This relationship is identical to the monarch butterflies' reliance on its host plant, milkweed, for defense. Predators find these chemicals distasteful and avoid eating the butterflies.
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  • The Eastern purple Coneflower genus name is from the Greek echino, meaning hedgehog, an allusion to the spiny, brownish central disk. The flowers of Echinacea species are used to make an extremely popular herbal tea, purported to help strengthen the immune system; an extract is also available in tablet or liquid form in pharmacies and health food stores. Often cultivated, Purple Coneflower is a showy, easily grown garden plant.
    Colored Pencil Coneflower.jpg
  • The Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus Leucocephalus) is found only on the North American continent. Adult male eagles generally weigh about 9 pounds. Adult females weigh in at between 12 and 13 pounds. Adult eagles have a wing span of up to 7 feet. Immature eagles are mottled brown and white. The distinct white head and tail of the mature bird is developed between 4-5 years of age. In the wild, bald eagles live to between 30 and 35 years. In captivity, they have been known to live up to 50 years.<br />
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Eagles do not live in isolation! Because they are near the top of the food chain, they become an irreplaceable indicator for measuring the health of the entire ecological system in which they live. After being listed as an endangered species in 1978 following a dramatic drop in population that began at the turn of the century, the Bald Eagle's status was upgraded to Threatened on August 11, 1995. Although efforts to replenish populations of the Bald Eagle have been successful, it continues to be protected under the Endangered Species Act, the Bald Eagle Protection Act, and the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.
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  • A Male House Sparrow Bring Food To The Young Ones
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  • A pink and cream tulip on a textured yellow and floral backdrop with a fine art feel.<br />
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Despite the fact that these flowers can grow in various climates, the tulip unfortunately lives a very short life. They die within three to seven days. However, while they are living, they grow rapidly, even after they have been cut.  It's not uncommon for cut tulip to grown an inch in a vase. In addition to growing after being cut, tulips are also known for moving around vases. This is because tulips will bend and "droop" in the direction of light.<br />
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Tulips are thirsty flowers and will drink a lot of water, so you will want to make sure to add new fresh water to the vase often. You can trim their stems with a knife to help them drink easier. There's no need to put any sort of flower food in the water. Tulips will be fine with plain water. Their stems can have up to a dozen leaves, but most have closer to six.<br />
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Tulips grow in a vast array of vibrant colors including yellow, red, pink, purple, orange and more.
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  • No doubt about it - the flamingo is a curious-looking bird. Its body is extremely slender, its head small, its bill strangely curved and hooked. And then there's the matter of color - how many animals can you name that are HOT PINK?<br />
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Flamingos are social birds. They live in large groups, sometimes up to tens of thousands of birds, an undulating ocean of pink. The sound of a large flamingo flock is also impressive (they're often mistaken for geese) and can be heard a great distance away. The birds are very vocal and use a wide variety of honks, alarm calls and other vocalizations.<br />
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Flamingos in a colony feed together, breed together, and fly together. They eat by day, but when a feeding area no longer provides enough food for the flock, the birds move to another location at night.<br />
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The birds are quite distinctive looking in flight. They stretch out their long necks and legs and spread their wings so the black undersides are visible. A flamingo's wingspan can range from three to five feet, depending on the size of the bird.
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  • A Pink Flaming Searches For Food In The Shadows
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  • The spotted hyena is a skillful hunter but also a scavenger. Truly an opportunistic feeder, it selects the easiest and most attractive food it may ignore fresh carrion and bones if there is, for example, an abundance of vulnerable wildebeest calves. It consumes animals of various types and sizes (including domestic stock and even other hyenas), carrion, bones, vegetable matter and other animals' droppings. The powerful jaws and digestive tract of the hyena allow it to process and obtain nutrients from skin and bones. The only parts of prey not fully digested are hair, horns and hooves; these are regurgitated in the form of pellets. As hyenas hunt mostly at night and devour all parts, little evidence remains of their actual meals. Although they eat a lot of dry bones, they need little water.
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  • Although phylogenetically close to felines and viverrids, hyenas are behaviourally and morphologically similar to canines in several aspects (see Convergent evolution); both hyenas and canines are non-arboreal, cursorial hunters that catch prey with their teeth rather than claws. Both eat food quickly and may store it. Hyenas feature prominently in the folklore and mythology of human cultures with which they are sympatric. Hyenas are mostly viewed with fear and contempt, as well as being associated with witchcraft, as their body parts are used as ingredients in traditional medicine. Among the beliefs held by some cultures, hyenas are thought to influence people's spirits, rob graves, and steal livestock and children.
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  • The Roseate Spoonbill is a gregarious wading bird of the ibis and spoonbill family, Threskiornithidae. A bizarre wading bird of the southern coasts, the Roseate Spoonbill uses its odd bill to strain small food items out of the water. Its bright pink coloring leads many Florida tourists to think they have seen a flamingo.
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  • Enjoy affordably creative food and drink in a hip, fun, and artsy social hangout right in the heart of New Town! Groovy daily specials and Beatnik Brew make every fall in to Beatniks a wonderfully unique experience.
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  • Mel's Drive-In at Universal Studios Florida<br />
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Mels Drive-In (not to be confused with Mel's Diner) is an American restaurant chain founded in 1947 by Mel Weiss and Harold Dobbs in San Francisco, California.<br />
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In October 1963, the Mels Drive in chain was picketed and subjected to a sit-in by the Ad Hoc Committee to End Discrimination over the fact that while the restaurant would serve food to African Americans and hired them as cooks, they were not allowed to work 'up front' where they could be seen by white customers. More than 100 protesters were arrested. The picketing ended when Harold Dobbs, a San Francisco City Supervisor who had run for Mayor and lost, settled with the protesters and began to allow black workers 'up front.'<br />
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Universal Studios built a replica of 'Mel's Drive-In' on its lot, pursuant to the restaurant being used in American Graffiti - this amusement attraction also served as a gift shop for years. There are also a number of 'Mels' located in Northern California that share the same general American Graffiti nostalgia theme and the similarly styled Mels logo.
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  • A Female Dark-Eyed Junco Foraging For Food in the Snow During A Cold Blue Winter Day.<br />
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Females and juvenile birds are generally paler and show a greater mixture of brown in the plumage. Generally, there is less white on the outer tail feathers in juvenile and female birds. There is, however, much individual variation.<br />
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The Dark-eyed Junco is the best-known species of the juncos, a genus of small grayish American sparrows. This bird is common across much of temperate North America and in summer ranges far into the Arctic. Dark-eyed Juncos are neat, even flashy little sparrows that flit about forest floors of the western mountains and Canada, then flood the rest of North America for winter. They're easy to recognize by their crisp (though extremely variable) markings and the bright white tail feathers they habitually flash in flight. One of the most abundant forest birds of North America, you'll see juncos on woodland walks as well as in flocks at your feeders or on the ground beneath them. <br />
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Juncos are the "snowbirds" of the middle latitudes. Over most of the eastern United States, they appear as winter sets in and then retreat northward each spring. Some juncos in the Appalachian Mountains remain there all year round, breeding at the higher elevations. These residents have shorter wings than the migrants that join them each winter. Longer wings are better suited to flying long distances, a pattern commonly noted among other studies of migratory vs. resident species.
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  • The Edsel was an automobile marque that was planned, developed, and manufactured by the Ford Motor Company during the 1958, 1959, and 1960 model years. With the Edsel, Ford had expected to make significant inroads into the market share of both General Motors and Chrysler and close the gap between itself and GM in the domestic American automotive market. But contrary to Ford's internal plans and projections, the Edsel never gained popularity with contemporary American car buyers and sold poorly. The Ford Motor Company lost millions of dollars on the Edsel's development, manufacturing and marketing.<br />
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This Shot Was Taken At Mel's Drive-In in Universal Studios Florida<br />
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Mels Drive-In (not to be confused with Mel's Diner) is an American restaurant chain founded in 1947 by Mel Weiss and Harold Dobbs in San Francisco, California.<br />
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In October 1963, the Mels Drive in chain was picketed and subjected to a sit-in by the Ad Hoc Committee to End Discrimination over the fact that while the restaurant would serve food to African Americans and hired them as cooks, they were not allowed to work 'up front' where they could be seen by white customers. More than 100 protesters were arrested. The picketing ended when Harold Dobbs, a San Francisco City Supervisor who had run for Mayor and lost, settled with the protesters and began to allow black workers 'up front.'<br />
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Universal Studios built a replica of 'Mel's Drive-In' on its lot, pursuant to the restaurant being used in American Graffiti - this amusement attraction also served as a gift shop for years. There are also a number of 'Mels' located in Northern California that share the same general American Graffiti nostalgia theme and the similarly styled Mels logo.
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  • This Tufted Titmouse was keeping an eye on me to make sure I did not steal his food.
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  • A glass of Charles Smith 'Secco' 'Italian Bubbles' Moscato 2011 I enjoyed at Seven Stones Wine Garden in New Melle, Missouri.<br />
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Moscato grapes can produce one of the sweetest white wines available without sweetening additives.  Depending on vintage and maker these wines can be sickeningly sweet or pleasantly sweet and nuanced. Moscatos are almost never food wines.  This is a sipper for a hot day.<br />
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It looks like Sprite in the glass, clear and bubbly.  Sweet peach makes up the entirety of the nose and palate with no finish to speak of.
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  • A Starling and A Prairie Dog Fight Over Peanuts at the Saint Louis Zoo
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