Sentences with phrase «of food caches»

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He's amassed a year's worth of canned and dry food, dozens of gallons of water, hundreds of water purification tablets, and a small cache of weapons in a old U-Haul truck outside his western Oregon home in preparation for «doomsday,» the end - times scenario based upon the ancient Mayan calendar hitting a symbolic turning point this month.

Stephen, seeing as how the Separatists (sorry, can't use the term Pilgrims) survived the first couple of weeks on food caches they stole from the Wampanoag, and then those same Native Americans taught them how to farm in the poor New England soil, they definitely had more to thank the local Native population for than most people give them credit.

Having done food photography for a year now, I have a huge cache of food photos that I have never used on Instagram or my blog and never will.

«Some of the woodpeckers will use this kind of drumming - type maneuvering to excavate a nest, they'll make little caches in a tree to store food, or some of them will actually forage that way.

Leaving her Jeep at the side of the road, she strides past cow patties and fast - food wrappers and scrambles down an eroded embankment of the Cache la Poudre River.

To ensure that it has enough food for the long, dark winter, the bird caches over a wide area some 100,000 mouthfuls of berries, insects, and spiders, says Tom Waite, a biologist at

To ensure that it has enough food for the long, dark winter, the bird caches over a wide area some 100,000 mouthfuls of berries, insects, and spiders, says Tom Waite, a biologist at Ohio State University in Columbus.

Much of our processed food is also riddled with solid fats, or so - called trans fats, such as the reengineered vegetable oils and shortenings cached in baked goods and snacks.

Several species of jays and crows, collectively called corvids, cache food to eat later.

For example, the ability of squirrels to cache food in autumn for the winter can be interpreted not as an anticipatory activity, but rather as innate behaviour.

Co-author Dr Lisa Leaver of the University of Exeter added: «We predicted that squirrels would be quick to learn this task because learning spatial arrays is crucial for them in order to recover their food caches in the winter months.

It found that ravens guarded caches of food against discovery in response to the sounds of other ravens if a nearby peephole was open, even if they did not see another bird.

For example, when ravens are being watched, they hide food more quickly and are less likely to return to a previously made cache, both of which might reveal the location of a cache to a possible pilferer.

Finding a cache of food and knowing it is new could be useful for an animal's future.

«These observations suggest that when lacking the cognitive anchor of a central food source, fox squirrels utilize a different and perhaps simpler heuristic (problem - solving approach) to simply avoid the areas where they had previously cached,» the study concludes.

If one raven sees another watching its cache of food, it's probably going to try to hide the treasures.

• Mental stimulation provided through the feeding of meals with puzzle food dispensers such as the Kibble Nibble by Premier and hide - and - seek games using food caches.

The Utah Department of Agriculture and Food confirmed West Nile virus in four horses between September 21 and September 25 in Weber, Cache and Uintah Counties.

With only slight irony, Mr. Steffen, 40, said he and his girlfriend could serve as «poster children for the well - adjusted, urban liberal survivalist,» given that they keep a six - week cache of food and supplies in his basement in Seattle (although they polished off their bottle of doomsday whiskey at a party).