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flower~power

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beef has fat marbled pretty much throughout the meat, bison fat was/is concentrated in the hump. i wonder if this had anything to do with it ? i had a ribeye cut of bison a couple of years ago, it was incredible!

That sounds like a possibility regarding the hump. I have eaten raised bison and it was very lean.

I don't remember much about the hunters memoirs but was reminded of his comment concerning productivity from the previous post by FP.
I’ve seen “beefalo” …it’s not a rare occurrence in the meat department
 

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Lester, how can you be certain of the genetics that made your volunteer? I often wonder what made the scent amount of seed on my outdoor. Was it selfed, sprayed by a neighbor plant or? I usually give fresh seed a bit of cold treatment and plant. Always fun to see what develops. Volunteers in the vegetable garden are easy to track. Weed- too many variables.
7 month old kitten saying hello to his buddy the squirrel and about to be ambushed by the neighbors cat.
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Truly primal': Watch Burmese python swallow deer whole in Florida Everglades by stretching its mouth to the absolute limit​

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By Hannah Osborne
published yesterday
An invasive Burmese python in the Everglades was spotted eating a white-tailed deer around 67% of its mass by stretching its mouth to almost the maximum width of what is physically possible.


a burmese python with its jaw stretched extremely wide as it swallows a large deer

Female Burmese python measuring 14.8’ (4.5m) and weighing 115.2 lbs (52.3 kg) consuming a white-tailed deer weighing 76.9 lbs (34.9 kg) in southwestern Florida. (Image credit: Ian Bartoszek, Conservancy of Southwest Florida.)


A huge Burmese python has been found swallowing a deer whole in Florida's Everglades. The impressive feat challenges what gape models suggest the invasive snakes are physically capable of.

"It felt like we were literally catching the serial killer in the act and it was intense to observe [in] real time," Ian Bartoszek, a wildlife biologist and science coordinator at the conservation organization Conservancy of Southwest Florida, told Live Science in an email.

The female Burmese python (Python bivittatus) measured 14.8 feet (4.5 meters) long and weighed 115 pounds (52 kilograms). It was discovered feasting on a white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) that weighed 76.9 pounds (35 kg) — almost 67% of the snake's mass. To devour the deer, the snake's mouth stretched so wide it reached 93% of its maximum gape, according to a study published Aug. 22 in the journal Reptiles & Amphibians.
"This was the most intense and impressive sight we have observed in12 years of tracking pythons in southwestern Florida," Bartoszek, one of the study authors, said. "It was truly primal and felt like a scene that had been playing out for millions of years wherever you have large snakes. Unfortunately our native wildlife in Florida have not evolved with this apex predator and you are seeing that result with these images."

Burmese pythons are an invasive species in the Everglades and were introduced at some point in the mid to late 20th century. The first sighting was in 1979, and by the 1990s they had gained a stronghold, feasting on native species while having no natural predators to control their population. While the current population size is unknown, experts estimate there could be hundreds of thousands in Florida. Over the last few decades, Burmese pythons have decimated local ecosystems, wiping out several mammal species.
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The female python was found eating the deer after a tagged male led researchers to it. (Image credit: Ian Bartoszek, Conservancy of Southwest Florida.)
Burmese pythons are known to eat deer and even alligators, but finding the predators in the act is challenging, limiting how much scientists know about what these apex predators are capable of eating, and therefore how much of an impact they're having on the ecosystem.
 

Lester Beans

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Lester, how can you be certain of the genetics that made your volunteer? I often wonder what made the scent amount of seed on my outdoor. Was it selfed, sprayed by a neighbor plant or? I usually give fresh seed a bit of cold treatment and plant. Always fun to see what develops. Volunteers in the vegetable garden are easy to track. Weed- too many variables.
7 month old kitten saying hello to his buddy the squirrel and about to be ambushed by the neighbors cat. View attachment 19089326 View attachment 19089327
The Sour Bubble was the male I was using for crosses and the mind blower was the only plant on that side of the property. I also trimmed and separated some seeds in the area the volunteer grew. 👍👍

Love your pics btw!
 
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