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Editorial
2 Feature Article
3 Reader Feedback
4 Did you Know quick Fact
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5 Goodies and Treats
6 Contact and please subscribe informatin
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Editorial
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Welcome to all
new subscribers. Without readers a news letter is pointless if you like what you read here send it to a friend.
I have
just spent two weeks in Bali, one of 13,677 islands that make up the country of Indonesia. From the West coast of Canada
it is a 17 hour flight. Ten hours to Japan and then 7 from Tokyo to Bali. It is located 8 degreees south
of the equator
and this gives it a tropical climate. 85C dropping to 70C at night.
I saw life from a five star hotel, to life
in a simple brick structure, with a palm roof. I saw terraced flooded fields planted with rice and barefoot farmers
with oxen and plough. I ate fresh mango, avacodo, coconuts, paw paw and bananas I also had fruits I had never heard of, such
as jack fruit, durien, snake skin and several whose name I do not remember.
One of my memories will be of the
wide smiles of the Balinese people. Another will be seeing familes washing in the drainage channels. We were invited to the
family home of a young man we met and enjoyed coffee made from locally picked and roasted beans. By our standards these
people do not have a lot, but they are very generous, kind and cheerful. The country side is beautiful like scenes from
National Geographic and the towns, not so clean and crowded with people and taffice problems from buses, scooters and
motor bikes. An amazing two weeks.
I look forward to receiving your suggestions for subjects to research.
Tell me what amazes you.
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Feature Article Hibernation
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Hibernation
is still a mystery, but some scientists have found a special substance in the blood of hibernating animals. It’s called
HIT (Hibernation Inducement Trigger). If blood is taken from a hibernating ground squirrel in the winter and injected into
an active squirrel in the spring, the active squirrel goes into hibernation.
A long siesta
Nature has provided some amazing
strategies to survive the winter, for those that don’t have the option of going south. In my research, I was amazed
to discover that hibernation takes place in extreme high temperature conditions, not just in cold weather. This is the equivalent
of a long siesta. However, surviving the cold weather is what most of us are familiar with, but did you know that frogs can
freeze and survive.
Frozen Frogs.
Wood Frogs found from Alaska through much of Canada, bury themselves
and then shut down completely. As the temperatures drops. as much as 65% of the water in its body gradually crystallizes
into ice. The frogs create glucose in their liver by breaking down glycogen using enzymes. This glucose goes out into their
body organs and is distributed throughout the bloodstream. Since there's so much glucose in the system, organs don't get damaged
because the sugar in their blood acts as anti-freeze
Sex or chocolate
They are the exact temperature
of the environment they are in. The frog spends two or three months imitating a frog slushy. When
they start to thaw out, the heart starts beating again. Then they start to gulp air and shake out their limbs, until they
are fully mobile. The first thing they do is to mate. If it were me I would want something to eat.
Two chocolate bars at least.
Squirrels.
Asleep, but ready for action. Not all squirrels hibernate
but in the species that do, remarkable changes take place. The body temperature of the small ground squirrel,
drops to within a few degrees of the cold outside its den. Its heart will beat only once
or twice a minute. When it is
active, the squirrel may breathe a few hundred times each minute, but in hibernation it takes a slow breath only once
every five minutes. Despite these changes, its blood remains saturated with oxygen, and little used muscles remain in tone
ready for action when they awaken.
Bears
Loose weight while you sleep.
A bear’s body
goes through several changes once it enters hibernation. Its heartbeat drops from fifty-five beats per minute to ten beats
per minute, and the bear’s body temperature will drop from five to nine degrees below normal. While in hibernation the
bear uses the stored energy it accumulated as fat to survive. So a bear can
lose from fifteen to forty percent of
its body weight during the winter just by sleeping! What a great way to Loose weight. No diets, pills or exercise.
Sleeping through birth.
The female grizzly bear will have her cubs during the winter hibernation.
During which time she does not eat or drink anything at all, yet still she is able to nurse and care for her cubs. The mating
period usually occurs in May to early July each year and the cubs are born generally around January or February, right during
the cold winter months. She has very tiny offspring usually weighing only a pound or two at birth, so it is easier for
her to nurse and feed them.
Bats Do not disturb.
Hibernating bats may breathe only once
every 45 minutes and can go for up to 2 hours without taking a breath. They live on stored fat reserves and can loose from
one quarter to one half of their body weight. When they are disturbed during hibernation, if they move to another
site, they use a lot of energy. A bat that is disturbed as few as two or three times in a single winter can burn up
all its energy reserves and die. Humans usually disturb them by accident, eg. cave
explorers, hikers and teenagers
looking for an adult-free place to party are usually not aware that their activities can be fatal to the bats they stumble
upon.
(From The Perils of a Long Winter’s sleep by Madeline Bodin.)
Trees
Trees low down
for winter. There isn’t enough light or water during the winter months for photosynthesis to take place, so the trees
shed their leaves to survive. If the leaves were to stay on, they would continue to evaporate water and the trees wouldn’t
be able to replenish their supply from frozen ground. During this long rest, trees feed off the food they stored during the
summer.
As the days begin to shorten and get cooler, it signals the trees that it’s time to stop the food-making process.
A special layer of cells develops right at the spot where each leaf is attached to the tree. These cells will seal the
cut after the leaf finally falls off. But before that happens, they first block the flow of food and water to the leaf. This
causes the chlorophyll to break down and fade away, revealing the bright colors that has been there all along, hidden
from our view! Don't take it for granted when you turn on the heating this winter, many people do not have
that luxury. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 3) Sites for more information ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://endangered.fws.gov/bats/hibernate.htmhttp://www.nwf.org
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/satoyama/hibernation.html
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4) Reader Feedback
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I
recommend you look at the web sites of the subscribers below.
They are real people who have taken the time to contact me.
If what they offer is of interest, they will take the time for you.
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newsletter is
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The Homestead Store and More........
For a little bit of Alaska and a lot of the Northwest,
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Very good newsletter with an unsual way of getting into the site.
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www.creativehomecomputing.com Carols Creative Home Computing site. Very helpful. Lots of good information
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I really do enjoy hearing from readers.
Thank you so much for taking the time
to contact me.
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Very good newsletter with an unsual way of
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Thank you for sharing the journey.
Tell me what amazes you and I will do the research.
Evelyn Underwood
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