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• Often a flock of birds will post one bird as a sentry to keep a lookout for predators as the rest of the flock feeds. Birds bring the sentry tasty morsels in order to reward it for its work. Some sentry birds give a false alarm when no predator is evident just at the exact same moment it’s seen a juicy morsel another bird has found. The birds drop what they’re doing upon hearing the warning cry, and the sentry swoops in to claim the treat.

• Capuchin monkeys practice the same deceit: when the monkey acting as a lookout sees another monkey finding something yummy, it gives the call warning of attack. The monkey promptly scampers up a tree, giving the lookout the opportunity to snatch the tasty morsel for himself. (continued next page)

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Called the mimic octopus, it can configure its body position and adjust its coloring to look exactly like other animals or to blend into the background. It uses this talent to get closer to its prey, and also to avoid being prey. By imitating a female crab, it can get close enough to a male crab to grab it and eat it. When approached by a carnivorous damselfish, it can mimic a banded sea snake, which preys upon damselfish.

• Australia is home to a remarkable bird called the lyrebird. The male of this species attracts mates by fanning his tail feathers while singing a courtship song. Lyrebirds are excellent mimics and can repeat the calls of other birds perfectly. Females seem to be attracted to the male lyrebirds that have the most complicated songs, so the males incorporate trills, warbles, various bird calls, and even the sounds of babies crying, jackhammers pounding, chain saws, car alarms, barking dogs, car horns, and other sounds of human settlements.

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• The male digger bee is always on the lookout for a female digger bee. Occasionally when the male digger bee finds a female, it turns out not to be a female digger bee at all. Instead, it’s actually a collection of hundreds of tiny blister beetle larva, who have gathered together and formed themselves into an exact replica of a female digger bee. When the male digger bee arrives looking for a romantic encounter, the tiny blister beetle larvae jump onto the body of the bee. The confused bee then flies away, looking for a real female. When he finds a female, the blister beetle larvae have just enough time to abandon the male digger bee and transfer to the female. When she’s done mating, she flies to her underground nest where she has filled cells with pollen in order to feed her offspring. While she is laying eggs, the blister beetles move into her larder, where they feast on pollen and grow into adults.

• Cuckoos are famous for laying their eggs in another bird’s nest. But the cuckoo finch of Africa has perfected this subterfuge. When it lays its eggs in another bird’s nest, the eggs look exactly like the real eggs of the host bird.

When the host returns, she can see that there are imposter eggs in the nest, but she is unable to tell which are her eggs and which are the imposters. She ends up hatching all the eggs, but because the cuckoo eggs hatch earlier than her own eggs, the cuckoo chicks eat the majority of the food she brings back.

• Bats home in on their prey by using echolocation, which is a series of rapid clicks that bounce back to the bat’s ears and indicate the location of prey. But the Grote’s tiger moth outwits bats by producing clicks of its own that jam the bat’s receiver, confusing it for the precious seconds needed for the moth to drop like a stone to the forest floor.

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• The appropriately named bird-dropping spider uses its clever disguise as camouflage. No one is going to pay attention to a pile of bird poop.

Other insects wander by the pile of apparent bird poop, the spider then promptly pounces on them and eats them. (continued next page)

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CAMOUFLAGE (cont’d) • Birds generally avoid eating ants because they taste bad. One species of treehopper bug living in Central America carries around an extra flap of tissue on its back that looks exactly like an ant. Any bird looking down upon the treehopper would see nothing but an ant. Underneath the ant-like decoration, the treehopper looks just like other ordinary treehoppers, safely protected by its disguise.

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• One type of spider found in Taiwan builds a life-size model of itself in order to act as a decoy. Using pellets made from the remains of insects, old leaves, empty egg sacks, and silk, this spider constructs a replica of itself. When predatory wasps attack, the spider is safely hidden away while the wasp attacks the decoy.

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• From the 16th to the 19th centuries, pirates on the Mediterranean Sea sailed a small threemasted vessel with square and triangular sails that enabled them to sail faster than their prospective victims. Depending on the size of The name of a prehistoric dragonfly with the ship, known as a xebec, between 16 and 40 a guns wingspan of up 2.5 feet (.8m) might be to mounted on the vessel.

• The word xenia has a variety of meanings.

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• Xystus is an architectural term, referring to a long, covered portico, or main entrance, of ancient Greek gymnasiums. Here, athletes would exercise during inclement weather.

To the Romans, the xystus was the garden walkway in front of the porticoes, where they planted flower beds.

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• Physicians are familiar with two unusual “X” A: Ready, Set, Glow! words, xyster and xiphisterna. The xyster is a surgical instrument used for scraping bones, while the xiphisterna refers to the cartilage at Answers on Page 8 the lower end of the body’s sternum, that long flat bone located at the center of the chest.

• The Greek word xanthos translates “yellow,” and several of our words use it for a prefix.

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3rd Quarter 2016 Amazing Plants Week 34 August 14 WATERMELONS -August 20 Page 8 • Watermelon is the most popular melon in the U.S., followed by cantaloupe and honeydew.

• It’s native to Africa and is depicted in hieroglyphs on the walls of ancient Egypt.

• Although there are over 300 varieties, only about 50 of them are grown commercially, and only five are commonly found in supermarkets.

• Watermelon contains many essential vitamins as well as lycopene. Lycopene is an antioxidant that gives fruits and vegetable a pink or red color.

• Every part of the watermelon is edible, including the seeds (roasted like pumpkin seeds) and rinds (slice them for stir fry, stew them, or pickle them).

• The first cookbook published in the U.S. in 1776 contained a recipe for watermelon rind pickles.

• One unusual snack is to put watermelon rinds in the blender and add lime juice for a kicky refreshing treat.

• Watermelon slices can be baked, pan fried, or grilled. When cooked, they become very firm and meaty and are called watermelon steaks.

• Some people claim that the juice of a watermelon helps prevent muscle pain if taken in advance of a heavy-duty workout.

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He recently passed a kidney stone and was wondering if there is a lab that he could send his stone to directly to be analyzed? Unfortunately, he prefers not to visit an internist or urologist. -- L.P. ANSWER: It depends on the state, but most laboratories require a professional’s order to perform testing. I have mixed feelings about this; however, I generally agree, since a physician or other provider should provide individualized recommendations on the appropriate changes in diet, medication and fluid intake, based on the stone type, medications taken, diseases or conditions present and other factors.

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• The world’s heaviest watermelon was grown

by Chris Kent of Sevierville, Tennessee in 2013, weighing in at 350.5 lbs (159 kg). That’s about the size of an NFL lineman.

• China produces more watermelons than any other country. The U.S. ranks 5th. Forty-four states grow watermelons with Florida, Texas, California, Georgia, and Arizona leading production.

• Farmers in Japan grow square watermelons by encasing the growing fruit in a cube-shaped box. They also grow watermelons in the shapes of hearts, pyramids, and human faces. These melons look neat but are rarely edible because they are harvested before they are fully ripe.

They are purchased as novelty gifts.

• Seedless watermelons are not genetically modified. Instead, they are the result of hybridization. If you take a female watermelon plant that has 44 chromosomes, and pollinate it from a male watermelon plant that has 22 chromosomes, you get a sterile seedless watermelon. It is similar to a horse mating with a donkey and producing a mule, which is sterile. The white seeds of a seedless watermelon are just empty seed coats. Today about 85% of watermelons sold are seedless.

• The Bradford watermelon is the sweetest variety in the world. It started in 1783, when an American soldier was captured by the British and held on a prison ship. He was given watermelon to eat that was the sweetest he’d ever tasted. He saved every seed, and planted them when he returned to Georgia. It was commonly boiled down to form watermelon molasses or distilled into watermelon brandy. But its rind is very soft, making it difficult to ship. It nearly went extinct before a patch was found being tended in a back yard garden, and it was revived. It’s one of the most drought-resistant types of watermelon and is now being grown in Bolivia and Tanzania.

DEAR DR. ROACH: I have to take levothyroxine in order to obtain an acceptable TSH number. I have read that some doctors are stating that there is a relationship between hypothyroidism and gluten intolerance, possibly even celiac disease. Is this proven to the point where a patient should alter his or her diet and give up the basic foods of bread and cereal? -- R.K. ANSWER: People with celiac disease have a much higher risk of autoimmune thyroid disease (especially Hashimoto’s, the most common cause of low thyroid) than expected, to the point where everyone with celiac disease should have a blood test to look at thyroid levels. Celiac disease, or intolerance of gluten in general, may have few or subtle symptoms, and it might be worthwhile to consider testing for celiac disease in people with autoimmune thyroid disease. However, I would not recommend a drastic change in diet for people with thyroid disease if there are no symptoms. *** Dr. Roach regrets that he is unable to answer individual letters, but will incorporate them in the column whenever possible. Readers may email questions to ToYourGoodHealth@med. cornell.edu. To view and order health pamphlets, visit www.rbmamall.com, or write to Good Health, 628 Virginia Drive, Orlando, FL 32803. (c) 2017 North America Synd., Inc. All Rights Reserved

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• General John Morgan was talking with General Nathan Bedford Forrest about their exploits in Did you hear about the family who got stuck the Civil War when Morgan asked Forrest howon Peter Pan’s Flight for over 3 hours? he had managed to capture the garrison at Murfreesboro.

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