In case you were wondering about the hood on the bird, it doesn’t cause it any harm. Quite upon the contrary in fact, it is used to calm a bird of prey. Many birds, including eagles, hawks and falcons wear them quite comfortably.
I used to keep owls (captive bred Barn Owls) but didn’t need to use hoods on them. It would be quite odd to hood an owl.
Ok so the places marked in red are all supposed to be in Europe, right? How then does this map’s interpretation of Moroco, Algeria, Tusia and Lybia, which in fact are all in Nortnern Africa, actually work?
Oh and why is North America (and of course, Canada above it) running through the middle of the map, apparently drowning in large amounts of water?
Oh OK, well I for one, found it rather confusing and then also rather alarming, when I noticed near enough all of the United States, appeared to be under water.
Yes, this is something we don’t really think about. The US is so far south compared to Europe that Florida and the southern parts of Texas are actually at the same latitide as the Sahara desert.
Yes I’m familiar with the fact that the proportions between countries and continents on the maps we usually see are not correct.
By the way, when we’re at it with latitudes, the area where I was born and grew up is on the same latitude as the Northernmost part of Alaska. And I mean Northernmost! Strange to think about, but if it wasn’t for the Gulf Stream I wouldn’t have been here
Yes the red area at the bottom is Africa, which I have already alluded to when talking about the specific African countries in my first post. What I don’t get is why certain areas have been superimposed over other areas, whilst showing something on the map that (apparently) relates to Europe.
… that approximately 50,000 people are killed by snakebites in India each year, accounting for roughly half of all snakebite fatalities globally. Comprehensive long-term studies indicate that an estimated 1.2 million snakebite deaths occurred in India between 2000 and 2019, averaging nearly 58,000 deaths annually.
I was stationed in a place where there were lots of prairie rattlers, it wasn’t unusual to come across them. One time I was about to go out the back door of my married quarters, I opened the inner door and as I was about to open the outer door I heard a rattle. Looked down and sure enough there was one curled up taking in the warn sun and I’d startled it. Needless to say I closed the inner door and used the front door. When I walked around to the back it was gone. Also had a black widow spider working her web on the screen of that same outer door. Lets just say that one was easy to to take care of.
I have never seen a venomous snake in my life, and I’m perfectly fine with that. The only one we have in Norway is the common adder or -viper. It is generally not considered to be dangerous. There are fatalities from its bite, but they are very rare. The last one was in the 1970’s.
I have seen a number of deadly snakes during my time in the service. We were briefed on any snakes and or insects that could give us issues in the area(s) we were going into. I’m pretty dam happy I never had to treat any of the troops for any potentially deadly or harmful snake bites. That goes for insects as well. We have 17 native species of snakes in the Provence I live in and only one that will give you will give you grief. Upside is there has only ever been 2 reported deaths here after being bitten. Not nice, but when you consider the number of deaths some other snakes have cause!
