What I learned From Reading My March 2014 NatGeo Magazine
I get these about once every two months and I always wait
for the next one anxiously. This March
2014 issue has all kinds of good stuff in it from the horses of the Indians of
North America to the Tuna that we eat.
Included in this issue they have new studies and pictures and things of
that nature about the Black Holes. I
love looking at all the pictures that fill the pages of the magazine.
I learned that Mustang really means Stray, as in stray cats,
in Spanish in medieval times. They got
that name because when the Mexicans rounded them up so many got away from them
and they became strays by the early 1500’s.
The first person to bring horses to North America was a Herna’n Corte’s
when he was looking for glory and gold in the late 1400’s.
Bats and flowers use each other and are synergetic in
nature. In this issue they have a
picture showing how the nectar gets deposited on the head and back of the bats
as they drinking the sweet nectar of the flower. Some of those tropical plants reflect sounds
so that the bats sonar guides it right to the specific flower for pollenation. I like bats.
The Bluefin and Yellow fin tuna is used mostly as in the
tuna that we use in cans and as a large source of sushi. The skipjack is the smallest of tuna and is
labeled as light meat in canned tuna. The
largest tuna is the Atlantic Bluefin.
This fish has a buttery flavor to it and is widely sought after for raw
dishes. No wonder other animals love
this fish as well as humans. With all the talk about over fishing, this is one
fish that left for a year would over produce to 5 times their present population. I thought that was cool news.
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