Sentences with word «guano»
Guano refers to the excrement or droppings of birds or bats. It is often used as fertilizer because it contains nutrients that help plants grow. Full definition
Conveniently enough for the researchers, tsunami deposits in this cave are demarcated by dark layers of guano deposited between tsunamis by the cave's resident bats.
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The wildlife down here is well fed — some of it feasting on guano and unfortunate newborn bats that lose their grip.
John Kismet Jashar commenced operations for Guano Australia Pty Ltd in the early 90s, from Shepparton Victoria.
Together with guano from nonbreeders, seabirds produce about 3.8 million metric tons of the element annually — a shade higher than what's transferred to land by all fishing activities, and 75 % of the nitrogen fixed by either lightning or bacteria in rice paddies.
Indications of a bat inside a home include noises that sound like fluttering or squeaking, most often at night and high up in a room or wall, as well as black droppings known as guano.
The woman was a charlatan and her followers are guano insane for believing her tripe.
While this was happening, a team of Australians who had been working in the struggling guano industry on various islands off North Queensland's coast were being rallied to take over the plant and equipment to get the new phosphate mining industry up and running.
Why do Insanimus Guano exes go to such drastic measures to control, maintain, and harass their ex-partners?
The scientists examined bat guano from a cave in northwestern Romania to produce new insight into how the climate in east - central Europe has changed since the Medieval Warm Period, about 850 AD.
Rather than feeding on bat guano like many other cave cockroaches, the new species instead graze on bacteria and fungi.
When bats return to the same location within a cave, guano piles beneath their roost can reach sizable dimensions.
Scientists had known of an Adélie penguin colony (Pygoscelis adeliae) in these Danger Islands, but satellite images revealed more guano on the rocky islands than could be explained by the colony's expected numbers.
Currently, there are three major hypotheses explaining this nutrient enrichment: nutrient enrichment via plant transpiration; bird guano as birds nest in the islands; and pre-Columbian human occupation,» said Cooper Fellow and Professor of Biology Leonel Sternberg.
If there are children, it is best to keep contact to a minimum and ONLY about the kids.4 Many people I know have had to take drastic protective measures when their Insanimus Guano exes were in full operation, such as getting restraining orders or getting new security systems for their homes.
To our valued customers, the reports that our birds nest soup contained guano are not true, the health department is investigating and we hope to reopen our facilities as soon as the investigation is over.
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Hello Dave, We added Chiltepin and Piquin seed to our product line of chile pepper seeds, and I understand that the wild Chiltepins germinate quicker when treated — I am trying the same procedure that eventually got my Galapagos chile seeds started: I just soaked them overnight in mild guano solution.Question... From your Encyclopedia (I love that book!)
While this was happening, a team of Australians who had been working in the struggling guano industry on various islands off North Queensland's coast were being rallied to take over the plant and equipment to get the new phosphate mining industry up and running.
By radiocarbon dating guano samples at 13 gyrfalcon nest sites in Arctic regions of west Greenland, Kurt Burnham of the Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology in Oxford, UK, and colleagues showed that some sites have been occupied for at least 2500 years.
Using new chemical analyses of penguin guano extracted in sediment cores from a lake on the island, the researchers unraveled the history of the penguin colony.
Bat guano is rich with nitrogen, and scientists know that nitrogen moves through the food change and through animals, where it is returned to the environment.
So when a filmmaker who always thinks of the big genre picture goes bat guano crazy with a 100 million plus version of what's essentially a 70's kid's matinee (a la «Arabian Adventure») with enough CG sword and metal - suited sandal insanity to make the blue - screened biceps of «300's» look positively pink in comparison, then you can expect Beltrami to deliver the blood and thunder like he's never done before.
The cave is home to bats and swiftlets, in which case guano often falls from the upper reaches.
We get OK to re-open soon, guano not right thing.
Relevance should be granted a broad scope: Peruvian Guano at 62.
But bat poop, called guano, is actually an important factor in the global ecosystem, and, in turn, the global economy.
Not only does guano act as an amazing fertilizer, it also helps to distribute seeds, which is especially helpful in places where natural vegetation has suffered due to man's interventions.
My religion says that I must hang an armadillo carca.ss and a bag of bat guano outside my door to ward off evil spirits away.
This ready and seemingly inexhaustible supply of phosphorus, in the form of guano phosphate (seabird droppings), dramatically increased Australian crop yields, and agricultural productivity following the Second World War.
We added Chiltepin and Piquin seed to our product line of chile pepper seeds, and I understand that the wild Chiltepins germinate quicker when treated — I am trying the same procedure that eventually got my Galapagos chile seeds started: I just soaked them overnight in mild guano solution.
Malcolm Beck from Texas, harvests and sells guano from Bracken Cave through his organic gardening emporium, Garden - Ville.
The American Bar's collection of memorabilia was started when an American guest gave Charles Guano — the hotel's late, beloved Head Barman of 42 years — a small wooden carving of an American eagle.
Which is, of course, the case regarding NCB guano psychosis.
Among those, the nitrogen - and phosphorus - rich guano produced by millions of seabirds (such as nesting cormorants, above) was so prized it went by the name «white gold.»
Guano aside, it may still make use of the bats.
«Thus, we were able to track nitrogen from bat guano into the seeds of Dipteryx trees,» explains IZW scientist Christian Voigt.
«If you dig into an active penguin colony, the sediments will be jet black and tarry and gooey — that's just degrading guano and pebbles,» says Emslie.
In a new paper published this week in the research journal Scientific Reports, USF geochemistry Professor Bogdan Onac and PhD student Daniel Cleary report that isotopes found in bat guano over the last 1,200 years can provide scientists with information on how the climate was and is changing.
When nitrogen isotopes change in response to variation in winter precipitation over the past 2,000 years, this signature is transferred from the soil to plant leaves to insect to bat and ultimately guano.
Through a network of informants, the Predict team had heard about a nearby cave where villagers gathered guano — the nutrient - rich bat droppings that enabled the bountiful onion harvest — and they were eager to collect some samples.
A long - time guano harvester, Nzuzi Yalungana, agreed to lead the INRB researchers — Mulembakani, Guy Midingi, and Ipos Lukusa — to the site as the sun began to set.
There she joined Scot Anderson and Peter Pyle, the two biologists who bunk down during shark season each fall in the island's one habitable building, a haunted, 135 - year - old house spackled with lichen and gull guano.
I've been working on THE SECOND BAT GUANO WAR, a hard - boiled spy thriller.
These birds nest on the ground in shallow depressions that they meticulously clean and keep ringed with white guano, or excrement.
Hotels and restaurants along Tulum's beach road use handmade light fixtures created from vejuco roots and some roofs are built from dried palmetto or guano palms.