Jaguarundi

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They are carnivores, hunting small animals such as birds, mammals, and reptiles.

They are primarily terrestrial, preferring to hunt from the ground, however they are both excellent climbers and swimmers.

They are usually solitary, although are sometimes found in pairs. They have litters of up to 4 kittens.

Interesting Jaguarundi Facts

They are about twice as big as a house cat

This makes them pretty big, but this is still small compared to the cougars or jaguars which also inhabit the region.

They are similar in appearance to weasels and otters

They have elongated bodies, short legs, a long tail, and small squished faces.

They are very shy

You will struggle to see these cats in the wild as they are shy and reclusive. This partly explains why so little is known about them.

They are usually solitary

They have sometimes been found in pairs, but this is likely mothers and older offspring or mating pairs.

Their closest relative is the cougar

However, cougars are much bigger than the medium-size jaguarundi.

The oldest fossil of a jaguarundi dates to 0.5 million years ago

This fossil is from the late Pleistocene era and was found in Brazil.

They have a big range

They can be found all the way from Argentina to Mexico.

They are active during the day

This is a little unusual for wild cats. They seem to prefer hunting in the mornings, which may be because it helps them avoid other wild cats.

They are terrestrial

While other wild cats inhabiting forests may prefer to stick to the trees, these cats hunt primarily on the ground. However, they are also proficient climbers.

They can swim across rivers

These cats often inhabit rainforests, where they will swim across medium-sized rivers.

They can leap as high as 2m into the air

They do this when hunting birds.

They are vocal

They have been recorded making 13 different calls, including screaming, purring, whistling, and yapping.

They have a tendency to steal chickens

They are often found eating domestic chickens, leading to conflict with farmers.

They have litters of up to 4 kittens

These kittens live in dens constructed in dense undergrowth.

SOURCE: FACTANIMAL

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  2. Morning, Pat! Wheezer was out and about already when I got up at 4:30. When I looked about 15 minutes later, I could tell he had eaten some of the remaining food and discovered him on the chair, waiting for me. Uh-oh! I caught a whiff of cat poop when I went outside….sigh…I was hoping not to need a litter box on the patio….go poop outside, Wheezer!!! He tried to follow me inside again but when I went back out with more food for him, that redirected his attention….FRESH FOOD!!! So much for following me inside….LOL

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  3. Morning All!
    I fell asleep in my chair yesterday watching football with hubby. this cold is kicking our butts!
    hubby’s about a day behind me though. I am sleeping better and starting to feel a little better but he’s not gargling like i was so he’s still congested.

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  6. Clinton
    @614clinton
    A farmer saw a plane full of politicians crash near his farm.

    When the police arrived, they asked the farmer what happened.

    He said, “They crashed near my farm, so I buried all of them.

    One of the police officers ask with shock, “Are you sure they were all dead?”

    The farmer said, “Some of them were screaming, “We are still alive” but I didn’t believe them. You know how these politicians lie.”

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  8. “Farm Attacks Up 21 Percent in Anti-White South Africa.”

    From National Pulse: “Attacks on South Africa’s predominantly white farmers increased by 21 percent in the third quarter of 2023, with 88 attacks launched for an average of almost one per day. The figures were collected by the Community Safety Division of AfriForum, a civil rights organization with a focus on the Afrikaans-speaking white minority, often referred to as Boers. Covering the period from July to September, they contrast with 73 farm attacks from April to June, although murders during farm attacks are down from 23 to 13.

    The attackers, who average 2.33 per incident, generally target the elderly, with the average age of their victims being over 60. Rhetoric against Afrikaners and the white minority more generally in South Africa has intensified in recent months, with Julius Malema of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party leading packed stadiums in chants of “shoot to kill… kill the Boer, the farmer.”

    The South African government, led by the African National Congres (ANC), is also targeting white farmers, by pushing to expropriate and redistribute their land without compensation and forcing them to submit to onerous “black economic empowerment” regulations or face restrictions on their ability to export to the United Kingdom and the European Union.”

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    1. and South Africa is a shit hole now.
      i’ve seen videos of a winery in South Africa–the owners were murdered and the villa was looted. the vines are rotting without care.
      everyone has their strengths. watching football yesterday, a large percentage was black–they’re great athletes–but would they make great male ballerinas? no
      instead of finding ways to build themselves up, they choose to tear the white farmers down…sad

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      2. The reality of the human condition is that dwelling just under the surface is the specter of tribalism; another of those traits that at one time may have helped to preserve the species. Juxtaposed with the complexities of “modern” society, it becomes, shall we say, inconvenient.
        EVERY race may revert, in a heartbeat, to more primitive motivations.
        As a society, we’ve been learning that these primitive motivations are easily manipulated against our higher interests. This quote comes to mind…

        “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”

        ― Ronald Reagan

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          1. You may have a point, but…other races may be more subtle in that manifestation.
            Japanese & Chinese are very homogeneous populations yet we don’t ascribe to them, as readily, the same racial motivations that we do with regard to blacks & whites.
            I’d maintain that their homogeneity bespeaks a racism as certain as what we see in the west. Ask any Asian victim of Imperial Japan in the 30’s & 40’s whether the Japanese were racist.
            Then go further back to the Mongols dominating the Chinese. 🤪

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  10. I was talking to my Sis about buying frozen meals – I mentioned that I loved Marie Callender’s peach cobblers but they weren’t being sold anymore. She mentioned one that Banquet was putting out, then said something about what to watch for on the labels of frozen meals. They are required to put notification on the label if anything is bioengineered, such as bacteria-engineered ingredients (like the RNA they’re putting in some foods now). I had picked up a couple of the Banquet pies on Wednesday to try and they do not have the bioengineer marking – and quite tasty, I might add! I also checked all of my Healthy Choice frozen meals and they also are not bioengineered. At least that simplifies things a bit instead of having to search thru the list of ingredients. It will always be at the bottom somewhere.

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  16. lol

    Charlotte99
    November 27, 2023 7:15 am

    An Islamic preacher got into a taxi in London and said to the taxi driver: “Brother, please turn off the radio, because as the Holy Qur’an commands, I am not allowed to listen to music, because in the time of the Prophet there was no music, especially western music, which is the music of the disbelievers.”
    The taxi driver politely turned off the radio, stopped the taxi and opened the door.
    Zakir asked him: “What are you doing bro…”
    The taxi driver answered politely: “In the era of the Prophet:
    There were no taxis.
    There were no bombs.
    There were no shortcuts.
    There were no loudspeakers in the mosques to wake up new-borns, the elderly and the sick at eerie hours.
    There were no suicide bombings.
    There was no AK 47.
    So shut up, step outside and wait for a camel…”

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        1. Oh, I agree! It’s stomach-churning just to read the bits and pieces of how King Charles lives his life, even for something as elementary as taking a dump! They couldn’t fight their way out of a wet paper bag!!!

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        2. A difference of degrees, not nature. One monarch vs. a ruling class selling access to our tax dollars for kickbacks…hate them all.

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              3. They’re not bad movies, with a lot of humor most of the time, so I can see it. And the ones they are showing now are newer with actors closer to her age, I expect.

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              4. ahhhhh…i didn’t know that

                my son in law sent us a short video o my granddaughter learning to drive the new dump truck they just got (not new in years, but new to them). she backed it up and everything. she’s a real farm kid

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  19. Well, my order of BF mini’s is out for delivery via UPS….I probably should shovel the front porch but they’ve been here many times and are used to it! LOL – besides, there’s only about an inch or so. Temp was down to 14 at one point during the night, 17 when I got up and it’s up to 23 now. Still cloudy, tho, and it was really windy yesterday…hope that’s not the case today since all the feeders need to be refilled.

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  20. “The dream is over for passengers who’d signed up for Life at Sea Cruises’ inaugural three-year voyage. Life at Sea Cruises had promised passengers of its inaugural three-year voyage the trip of a lifetime — they were supposed to set sail on Nov. 30, travelling to 382 ports across 140 countries over the span of three years. Some say they have nowhere to return to, having sold or rented out their homes in anticipation of the round-the-world voyage, as well as getting rid of their possessions.”

    It’s pretty funny – they still have their website up and operational. How big a scam was this?”
    https://www.lifeatseacruises.com/

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    2. have you ever been on a cruise? my boyfriend when i was 18 won a cruise for 2 to the Bahamas in a church raffle. we flew into Florida and that’s where we left from. I wasn’t impressed. tiny spaces. you didn’t eat at your own table–there were 3 other couples at the table. you could eat all day long, but if you didn’t like to sunbathe, there wasn’t much else to do, except gamble. Everyone on the cruise won it the same way. then one day we all traveled to a private island for a luau and another drawing to see who would win a million dollars. wasn’t my boyfriend…lol
      anyway, a neighbor of my mom’s also won the cruise so he kept an eye on us…LOL

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      1. No, I never have nor have I ever been seriously tempted. I’m not big on the ocean any more than you are! I did wonder if it might be fun to try one of those windjammer cruises briefly….that didn’t last long! LOL – the only time I went out on the ocean, per se, I got sicker than a dog! No thanks!

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  21. “Forbes did an evaluation of Girl Scout’s cookie selling operations and determined that the organization brings in nearly $ 800,000,000.00 a year selling them. Part of the reason they are as successful as they are? Aside from the cost of manufacturing and distributing the cookies, they have no other overhead or costs related to the sales.”


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  28. bringing this from wolfs

    RedLegLeader68

    RedLegLeader68(@redlegleader68)

    Online

    Wolverine

    November 27, 2023 10:40

    W & all … some thoughts for today —

    𝐎𝐥𝐝 𝐇𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐖𝐢𝐬𝐝𝐨𝐦

    Your fences need to be horse-high, pig-tight and bull-strong.

    Keep skunks, bankers, and politicians at a distance.

    Life is simpler when you plow around the stump.

    A bumble bee is considerably faster than a John Deere tractor.

    Words that soak into your ears are whispered, not yelled.

    The best sermons are lived, not preached.

    If you don’t take the time to do it right, you’ll find the time to do it twice.

    Don’t corner something that is meaner than you.

    Don’t pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he’ll just kill you.

    It don’t take a very big person to carry a grudge.

    You cannot unsay a cruel word.

    Every path has a few puddles.

    When you wallow with pigs, expect to get dirty.

    Don’t be banging your shin on a stool that’s not in the way.

    Borrowing trouble from the future doesn’t deplete the supply.

    Most of the stuff people worry about ain’t never gonna happen anyway.

    Don’t judge folks by their relatives.

    Silence is sometimes the best answer.

    Don‘t interfere with somethin’ that ain’t botherin’ you none.

    Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.

    If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop diggin’.

    Sometimes you get, and sometimes you get got.

    The biggest troublemaker you’ll ever have to deal with watches you from the mirror every mornin’.

    Always drink upstream from the herd.

    Good judgment comes from experience, and most of that comes from bad judgment.

    Lettin’ the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier than puttin’ it back in.

    If you get to thinkin’ you’re a person of some influence, try orderin’ somebody else’s dog around.

    Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you’ll enjoy it a second time.

    Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God.

    Most times, it just gets down to common sense.

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  32. Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 Profile picture
    Julie Kelly 🇺🇸
    @julie_kelly2
    1h • 2 tweets • 1 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
    Whoo boy–last week, Trump’s lawyers in J6 case filed a 9-page discovery letter seeking lots of records from Special Counsel and DOJ related to 2020 election and Jan 6.

    Some highlights: Image
    I’ve said Smith’s indictment could backfire on Dems/Biden in a big way. If Trump’s team gets even some of this discovery, that’s exactly what will happen–not just related to 2020 election but J6 in general:

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  38. By jove, I think I’ve got it….hopefully!

    “History Made As Irish Citizens Riot While Completely Sober”

    WORLD · Nov 27, 2023 · BabylonBee.com

    DUBLIN — Overlooked in the chaotic situation that unfolded in recent days, Irish citizens made history as they engaged in violent rioting while completely sober for the first time ever.

    “This is truly unprecedented,” said Professor Blake Rumsey, sociologist and lead historian at the Institute of Knowledge. “Throughout recorded history, we’ve never seen this type of Irish upheaval in the absence of copious amounts of beer, whiskey, and Bailey’s Irish Cream. It is both surprising and impressive to see Irish citizens proving their collective ability to stage a riot while not the least bit intoxicated.”

    Irish citizens in Dublin began to violently protest the nation’s unfettered immigration policies after a migrant injured multiple children last week, shocking authorities with both the riot itself and their sobriety. “We surein’ were not expectin’ a wild band o’ sober hooligans,” said Patrick O’Shaughnessy, Dublin Police spokesman. “We’re used t’dealin’ with a rowdy bunch o’ drunken rabble-rousers, but this was very different. Turns out rioters are much more dangerous when they aren’t properly hammered.”

    Researchers had to look all the way back to the early 1700s to find a comparable event, though it is believed the Irish protestors at the time were still hung over and rioting over wanting more whiskey. “We thought that Unrest of 1716 may have been the last sober riot,” Rumsey said, “I guess we were wrong.”

    At publishing time, Dublin authorities were reportedly trying to decide between facing additional sober rioters or attempting to ply the mob with alcohol.”

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  41. “Derek Chauvin Charged With Assaulting Inmate’s Shiv”

    U.S.·Nov 27, 2023 · BabylonBee.com

    TUCSON, AZ — Former police officer Derek Chauvin was charged with yet another appalling atrocity today after allegedly assaulting a fellow inmate’s shiv with his body while serving time for the 2020 death of George Floyd.

    “The sheer heinous monstrosity of this man is disturbing,” said Federal Correction Institution spokesman Greg Albertson. “According to information we were given by the victimized inmate, Mr. Chauvin stubbornly stood in the way of this gentlemen’s crudely made prison shiv. Mr. Chauvin then repeatedly leaned his body into the shiv without the shiv’s consent. We are currently taking disciplinary measures against Mr. Chauvin and pursuing additional criminal charges.”

    Chauvin is serving simultaneous sentences for civil rights violations and second-degree murder. A fellow inmate at the facility claimed to have witnessed Chauvin’s brutal attack on the shiv. “Dude has no right to get in the way of a shiv like that,” said convicted felon “Sneaky” Pete Ramirez. “That man’s shank was just minding its own business and doesn’t need some evil white man imposing his privilege. It’s just wrong.”

    Though Chauvin was listed as being in serious but stable condition, officials at the prison vowed to do whatever would be necessary to keep him in harm’s way. “He may have survived his assault on the shiv,” said Albertson, “but the American public can rest assured he won’t get away with this.”

    At publishing time, the prison was preparing to move Chauvin to the most dangerous section of the facility for his own safety as soon as he recovered from his injuries.”

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    1. From what they are claiming, he stepped off his porch to confront them as they were walking past his house and shot them w/o even speaking to them first…we’ll see…

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  48. EXCLUSIVE: Illegal Aliens Receiving GPS COORDINATES for Mass Crossings Into US Hundreds of illegal aliens are slamming the U.S. southern border every day in mob crossings that are clearly pre-planned and organized by ‘mysterious hands.’ While embedded with a massive group making their way at night through Piedras Negras, Mexico, to the Rio Grande, Border Hawk correspondent Efraín González learned that migrants are provided with GPS coordinates which enable them to gather at specific locations and cross en masse. It is unclear exactly who is behind the scheme, but some of the migrants indicated Mexican authorities may be involved. “We accompanied this caravan that walked for an hour in the darkest to reach the crossing point. The migrant said they were angry Mexican authorities sent them to cross into this dangerous area of the river at night,” González explained. “Most of these people do not know how to get to the river. However, through GPS they obtain the exact location where forklift tractors raised the razor wire in October.” GPS-guided mass crossings into Eagle Pass have become much more frequent in November as the Biden border rush rages on. Please donate to support our work http://borderhawk.news/donate

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      1. pain in the ass process….sure you can find an easier way…lol

        i click on the link icon and enter the tweet in there. you’ll see the tweet link in blue and beneath it you’ll see the link (minus the https://) in black. i copy that part below the blue link, erase the blue link and add the https://

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        2. Which link are you calling the “link icon?” This icon (-) to enter code? Or do you select the plus symbol? If so, then what?

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