On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 17:45:05 GMT, "AlmostBob"
wrote in
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>Point to K16
>Bovril is the pommie beef extract, dont let anyone tell you
>vegemite/marmite/promite is bad, wwwwhhhhhhooooo
Actually didn't even think of Bovril, although have probably
tried it at one time or another. I don't claim that any of the
products are "bad" as they are loaded with valuable nutrients and
vitamins.
All I have said is that many people, including me, simply don't
like the taste of Vegemite/marmite/promite. Perhaps I
should try Bovril just in case haven't tried it?
I generally don't mind trying new foods, although have yet to eat
a witchetty grub, raw or cooked. Kangaroo is excellent, though.
Far more healthy than beef due to far less fat content. Contrary
to common belief, lots of Kangaroos in Australia. It is
estimated that about 10x as many than at settlement.
http://www.dfat.gov.au/facts/kangaroos.html
Impossible to get an actual count of Kangaroos, though.
20 million to 40 million? Not feasible to even try to count
them. Would be like trying to get an accurate population
count of wild jackrabbits in the USA.
Probably would be harder, actually, as:
"Kangaroos have adapted to the varied conditions across
Australia in many ways. One of the most unusual, is the way
females of some species can delay the progress of pregnancy. In
this way the female is ready to give birth to a replacement for
the young in her pouch if it dies early, or within a week of when
it permanently leaves the pouch. This ability to delay births
means that there can be up to 12 months between a mating and the
birth of the young one resulting from that mating (when the
normal gestation period is less than 35 days). It also means that
the species can best respond to periods of drought and plenty.
Species which have this unusual ability normally mate again soon
after the female gives birth. The tiny newly born kangaroo (less
than 25 mm long) moves unaided into its mother's pouch and
attaches itself to one of four teats. During the early stages of
pouch life the young is permanently attached to the teat, but as
it matures and begins to grow hair it also develops the ability
to release and reattach itself to the teat. In the late stages
of pouch life, once it has a thin covering of fur, the young one
begins to explore the outside world for increasing lengths of
time until eventually it is old enough to be excluded permanently
from the pouch. Complete weaning may take a number of months more
after the young has permanently left the pouch. If the mother
gives birth during this time, the newborn young will attach
itself to a different teat to that being used by the older young.
It is remarkable that when this happens the mother produces two
different kinds of milk for the two different-aged young."
[More at]
http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/trade-use/wild-harvest/kang...o/biolo
Readers who like to play with numbers might like to estimate how
fast kangaroo populations can multiply under ideal conditions.
Say we have 40 million kangaroos, or roughly 20 million female
kangaroos. They normally breed year around. The joey in the
pouch becomes independent after several months, a year at most.
With a gestation period of < 35 days, she can soon have another
Joey in the pouch.
Readers concerned with overpopulation of the earth should be
glad that humans are placental mammals and not marsupials. If
a human mother could give birth in 35 days and the child became
independent at a year, the human race probably would have
suffered a massive population crash long before now.
As it is, though, the closest we have come to a population
crash was the Bubonic Plague centuries ago. Many of us
think that if the world doesn't stablise population growth
a much larger one is coming eventually, perhaps not that
many generations ahead given global warming and climatic
changes.
Cheers,
Kangaroo16
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