Trade this week has been volatile to say the least with the November WASDE catching the markets by surprise but profit taking pressuring futures yesterday. Trade on Friday was more muted, but wheat markets rallied into the close as early weakness found strong technical support and end-user buying. Soyoil posted a strong bullish technical session overnight and traded higher through the day. That lent additional support to the soybean market, though soybean futures look to be consolidating now. Livestock futures were sharply lower as new longs liquidated positions amid cash market weakness. The latest forecasts from NOAA point to a deepening La Nina event for 2020 and 2021. Pacific Ocean temperatures are well below normal and the band of col...
Kiwengwa/Pongwe Forest Reserve Kiwengwa/Pongwe Forest Reserve is located on the northeast coast of Unguja, 20 kilometres (12 mi) from the Town. The reserve is an important biodiversity spot in the coral rag zone. The forest reserve is rich both in faunal and floral species. The faunal species r...
Fabiana is a genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family, native to dry slopes in western South America.[1] They are evergreen shrubs or subshrubs,[1] with needle-like leaves and profuse tiny tubular flowers in summer. The common name is false heath because the leaves superficially resem...
An Ankylosaurus lumbers along the shore of what’s now eastern Montana. Walking low to the ground, the dino uses its flat, leaf-shaped teeth to tear at ferns lining the water. Suddenly, a shadow looms over the herbivore—a Tyrannosaurus rex is hungry. But Ankylosaurus won’t be a...
The magpie goose (Anseranas semipalmata) is the sole living representative species of the family Anseranatidae. This waterbird is found in northern Australia and southern New Guinea.[2] The species is not truly migratory but it sometimes travels large distances to find food and water, especiall...
From WPI Consulting
Like all marmots
An adult Vancouver Island marmot typically measures 65 to 70 centimetres (26 to 28 in) from the tip of its nose to the tip of its tail.