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| | Water Buffalo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Wild-living populations also exist in much of South-east Asia but their origin is uncertain: they may be the descendants of wild Water Buffalo, formerly domesticated ferals or a mixture of both. | | | The water buffalo, or "Carabao," is the national animal of the Philippines. | | | Asia is the native home of the water buffalo, with 95% of the world population of water buffalo. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_buffalo
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| | Wild rice - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Canadian wild rice is usually harvested from natural bodies of water; the province of Saskatchewan is the largest producer in Canada. | | | Wild rice is the only cereal crop native to North America. | | | Texas wild rice is in danger of extinction due to loss of suitable habitat in its limited range and pollution. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_rice
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| | Making Our Peace with Canada Geese |
| | Many Canada geese also were kept in captive flocks to serve as live decoys, tethered along the waterways followed by migrating geese to entice the migrators into shotgun range in hunting season. | | | Flocks of molting geese are herded from the water by boat and into pens on shore, where the adults are separated from the goslings. | | | Any modest contribution from geese is easily mitigated by nonlethal methods of control, such as reducing the attractiveness of municipal water supply sites. |
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http://www.hsus.org/ace/12097
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| | Wild Licorice |
| | The Blackfoot Indians of the Dakotas steeped the leaves of wild licorice plants in hot water and used this infusion to treat earache. | | | Licorice grows wild in North America as Glycyrrhiza lepidota, one of numerous species of this plant. | | | Look for wild licorice during May to August in rich soil areas in native prairie near wetlands or coulee bottoms. |
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http://www.holoweb.com/cannon/wildd.htm
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| | Desert Animal Survival - DesertUSA |
| | Some predatory and scavenging animals can obtain their entire moisture needs from the food they eat (e.g., Turkey Vulture) but still may drink when water is available. | | | Equally ingenious are the diverse mechanisms various animal species have developed to acquire, conserve, recycle, and actually manufacture water. | | | These are just a few examples of the ingenious variety of adaptations animals use to survey in the desert, overcoming the extremes of heat and the paucity of water. |
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http://www.desertusa.com/survive.html
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| | Tomatoes |
| | The rice starched water degreases the wok and keeps it from rusting avoiding the necessity of re-seasoning the wok. | | | The water for cooking the rice is never measured in a cup, with the rice in the pot and your finger resting on top of the rice, add wter to the first crease of the finger and that's it. | | | In a chinese house the rice is always washed, rinsed five or six times until the water is clear and in some traditional provinces, the water from this is saved and used to wash the wok. |
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http://www.cyberchefs.net/ricepage.htm
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| | Animal Info - Wild Water Buffalo |
| | Population estimates are hampered by the difficulty in distinguishing wild buffalo from domestic, feral and hybrid buffalo. | | | The wild Asian buffalo is chiefly a grazer, feeding in the morning and evenings and lying up in dense cover or submerging in wallows during midday. | | | India, wild buffalo are now largely restricted to Assam and Madhya Pradesh, but most, if not all, surviving populations are believed to have interbred with domestic and/or feral buffalo. |
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http://www.animalinfo.org/species/artiperi/bubaarne.htm
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| | Licorice (Liquorice) & Licorice directory |
| | Hard Extract of Liquorice, as described, is essentially different in composition and properties to the Extract of Liquorice of the British Pharmacopceia, which is entirely soluble in cold water, whereas the so-called Spanish Juice, when treated with cold water, leaves a large residue undissolved, retaining the shape of the stick. | | | Both Spanish and Russian Liquorice are usually exported in large bales or bundles, or rarely, in the case of the Spanish variety derived from Alicante, loose, or in bags. | | | Liquorice is official in all pharmacopoeias, which differ as to the variety or varieties recognized, as to the botanical name employed and as to the drug being peeled or unpeeled, dried Liquorice root being supplied in commerce either with or without the thin brown coat. |
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| | Wild Rice |
| | The growth of wild rice is also tolerant to a wide variation in the hardness (22 to 300 ppm calcium carbonate) and pH (5.0 to 8.0) of the water. | | | Wild rice may be planted by using a bulk-fertilizer spreader to broadcast the seed, which is followed by using a disk or harrow to incorporate it to a depth of 1 to 2 in. | | | Wild rice is currently produced commercially as a field crop in Minnesota and California, which account for most of the acreage (20,000 and 8,000 acres, respectively, in 1991). |
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http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/afcm/wildrice.html
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| | Asian water buffalo |
| | Choudhury, A. The decline of the wild water buffalo in northeast India. | | | Analysis of genetic diversity of domestic water buffaloes and anoas based on variations in the mitochondrial gene for cytochrome b. | | | Status of wild Asiatic buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) in the Raipur and Bastar Districts of Madhya Pradesh. |
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http://www.ultimateungulate.com/Artiodactyla/Bubalus_bubalis.html
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| | eMedicine - Plant Poisoning, Hemlock : Article by Daniel E Brooks, MD |
| | Water hemlock may reach a height of 2.5 meters and can also be confused with other plants such as wild carrot, also known as Queen Anne's lace (Daucus carota), or poison hemlock (C maculata). | | | Poison hemlock may be mistaken for wild carrots. | | | Water hemlock is typically found growing in moist habitats, such as drainage ditches, marshes, and near bodies of fresh water. |
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http://www.emedicine.com/emerg/topic875.htm
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| | Wild Rice/Ground Beef Mixtures |
| | Grade A Minnesota wild rice was hydrated (cooked) in boiling water to 300%, i.e., one pound of dry wild rice yielded three pounds of cooked wild rice. | | | Chill the approximately 3 pounds of cooked wild rice to at least 50 degrees F, preferably 40 degrees F, by rinsing with cool water and/or spreading in a shallow pan in a cooler. | | | Wild rice is a unique Minnesota food considered by many to be an "upscale" product. |
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http://www.extension.umn.edu/distribution/nutrition/DJ3979.html
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| | Haiti-Wild and Domestic Animals |
| | Veterinary care is almost non-existent in Haiti, so all animals, wild or domestic, should be considered diseased and dangerous. | | | It is also important to protect water supplies from animals. | | | Wild and domestic animals represent a serious health risk through bites, scratches, goring or other trauma, or by simple contact. |
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http://www.usariem.army.mil/haiti/wildanim.htm
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| | Wild Rice |
| | Wild rice has been difficult to cultivate, in large part because of the ease with which ripe grains fall from their stalks or "shatter." For centuries Native Americans harvested it in canoes, bending the long stalks over the canoe and shaking off the grain. | | | Wild rice is a tall aquatic grass of North America with a grain two or more times the length of the long grain rice of Asia (Oryza). | | | The rice is also a valuable food for water fowl and is planted for that purpose. |
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http://www.bio.umass.edu/biology/conn.river/rice.html
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| | Wild Rice |
| | I don't know if there are rice beds in the areas affected by Canada's huge hydro projects, but if there are they won't survive, because the plants don't like changes, the species are perfectly adapted to the way things are in different areas, including seasonal water levels, quality, temperature. | | | The grains from tied rice wouldn't fall in the water. | | | It is the rice, not the wild birds, which was the staple most important food, and is the focus of the prayers and thanks. |
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http://www.kstrom.net/isk/food/wildrice.html
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| | Make a Big Splash with a Tiny Water Garden |
| | Marginal plants are those that are usually placed along the edges of a water garden; in the wild they grow in shallow water. | | | Small-container water gardens are actually a collection of submerged potted plants, so redesigning a planting is as simple as moving the pots around. | | | Water lily flowers, which I collect from a larger water garden, will last three days if cut the morning they first open. |
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http://www.taunton.com/finegardening/pages/g00042.asp
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| | American wild boar,Sus scrofa,information and photographic images. |
| | The terrain most favored by wild hogs is moist with dense cover, and preferably near water. | | | Wild boar, just like their domestic counterparts, adore the water. | | | While he could take a piece out of you as well as any other wild boar, his status among boars is that he is not advertising to fight, he would be submissive to a big boar, and would fight only a smaller or weaker hog. |
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http://www.suwanneeriverranch.com/wild-boar.htm
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| | DiWineTaste - Licorice - Aquavitae |
| | Licorice has digestive and gastric anti inflammatory properties, it is an excellent thirst quencher and emollient, it is used as a sedative for cough, expectorant, slightly laxative, increases blood pressure, as it causes water and sodium retention as well as a loss of potassium. | | | Licorice is a very vigorous plant which tends to spread both in untilled and cultivated soils, has very developed and branched roots, with underground stolons which spread horizontally and not very deep. | | | Licorice, that is Glycyrrhiza glabra, is a perennial spontaneous herbaceous plant, with a big rhizome from which grow stolons up to two meters long and woody roots of the same length, belonging to the Leguminosae family, having a height from 50 to 100 centimeters (1.6-3.2 feet). |
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http://www.diwinetaste.com/dwt/en2005057.php
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| | Wild Licorice - Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives |
| | Wild licorice can be started from seed, but the seed should be scarified or soaked in cold water overnight to break the seed coat. | | | Wild licorice (Glycyrrhiza lepidota Pursh, Fabaceae) is an erect perennial that grows to 1 - 1.5 m tall, from deep, woody rhizomes that have a licorice flavour. | | | Wild licorice has a unique market potential as a natural sugar substitute, due to growing concerns over side effects of other synthetic sugar substitutes. |
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http://www.gov.mb.ca/agriculture/crops/medicinal/bkq00s09.html
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| | Article - U.S. Native Turtle Menu |
| | Only available wild-caught, and with ‘wild water’ you may (theoretically) pick up parasites (or their eggs) like hook worms, round worms, tapeworms, etc...and introduce them to your tank. | | | It removes water by freezing then converting the water from solid state (ice) to vapor without an intervening liquid phase. | | | Can be kept alive a few days in fresh water in the refrigerator, but realistically, plan to use within 3 days. |
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http://www.austinsturtlepage.com/Articles/menu.htm
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| | Lioncrusher's Domain -- Wild Cat (Felis silvestris) facts and pictures |
| | The European wild cat tends to feed on small rodents such as the wood mouse, pine vole, water vole and shrew, while the Scottish subspecies tends to feed more on rabbits and hares. | | | The African wild cat: Though their color does tend to be lighter overall than the European wild cat, due to the fact that they inhabit less densely wooded areas, they have a wide diversity on coloration. | | | The African wild cat will eat rodents, insects, birds, and small mammals. |
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http://www.lioncrusher.com/animal.asp?animal=72
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| | Nature Notes |
| | Other plants that abound along the "causeway" that gives an alternative but rather squelchy route to the shore are Reed, Wild Iris, Meadowsweet, Cuckoo Flower, Water Avens, Water Horsetail, Hemlock Water Dropwort and Valerian, while dotted among them in smaller numbers are Bluebell, Wild Garlic, Common Sorrel, Broad-leaved Dock and Pignut. | | | I'm so used to thinking that wings and water don't go together that it took several repeats of this performance before I accepted the obvious fact that the return to the water was deliberate. | | | What looked like a small moth, but was probably something along the lines of a caddis fly, "swam" across the water surface using its wings. |
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http://www.nature-diary.co.uk/2005-05-31.htm
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| | Article - U.S. Native Turtle Menu |
| | Only available wild-caught, and with ‘wild water’ you may (theoretically) pick up parasites (or their eggs) like hook worms, round worms, tapeworms, etc...and introduce them to your tank. | | | It removes water by freezing then converting the water from solid state (ice) to vapor without an intervening liquid phase. | | | Can be kept alive a few days in fresh water in the refrigerator, but realistically, plan to use within 3 days. |
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http://www.austinsturtlepage.com/Articles/menu.htm
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| | Hog Info |
| | This type of hunting is useful when you know that wild pigs are using an area and have located their food or water source. | | | Wild pigs can be active at any time of the day, but they are mostly active during the early morning and late evening, when traveling to and from their beds. | | | In general, wild pigs feed on: grasses and forbs in the spring; mast and fruits in the summer and fall; and roots, tubers and invertebrates throughout the year. |
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http://misstexhunting.com/hog_info.htm
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| | Native Foods --Rose hips |
| | Use 2 tablespoons per pint of water, boil covered. | | | ried rose hips need to be boiled about 10 minutes to make a tea of them; just pouring hot water over them results in a fairly tasteless brew. | | | These roses, blossoming on thorny briar tangles, flower through June and begin to set their haws, hips or berries, which are ripe by early fall, as shown to the lower right of the drawing. |
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http://www.kstrom.net/isk/food/wildrose.html
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| | Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine: Licorice |
| | Licorice taken in its natural form, such as chewing the root, may mitigate the side effect of water retention because of the high presence of the plant constituent asparagine. | | | Licorice is a hardy plant that thrives in full sun or partial shade and prefers rich, moist soil. | | | Licorice increases bile flow and acts to lower blood cholesterol levels. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_g2603/is_0000/ai_2603000078
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| | Rye on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Root biomass, water-use efficiency, and performance of wheat-rye translocations of chromosomes 1 and 2 in spring bread wheat `Pavon'. | | | Registration of 'FL-SYNT' tetraploid spring rye germplasm.(Registrations Of Germplasms) | | | Understanding the effect of rye chromatin in bread wheat.(Crop Breeding, Genetics and Cytology) |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/R/RyeU1S1.asp
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| | Wild Burro (DesertUSA) |
| | Wild Burros range through a wide variety of desert habitats as along as they are within 10 miles of drinking water. | | | Wild Burros can tolerate a water loss as much as 30% of their body weight, and replenish it in only 5 minutes drinking. | | | The BLM manages about 42,000 wild horses and burros that roam public lands in the West under the Wild Free-Roaming Horse and Burro Act of 1971. |
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http://www.desertusa.com/magjan98/jan_pap/du_wildburro.html
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| | Nevada Division of State Parks - Rye Patch State Recreation Area |
| | The reservoir can store 200,000 acre-feet of water to irrigate 38,000 acres of agricultural land. | | | The 75 foot-high, earth-filled dam was built by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (U.S. Water and Power Resources Service) to control floods and increase irrigation. | | | Named for a patch of wild rye along the railroad route, Rye Patch had a school, post office, boarding house and, after 1869, a station on the Central Pacific Railroad. |
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http://www.parks.nv.gov/rp.htm
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