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It used gizzard stones to help digest its food, which is thought to have included fruits, and its main habitat is believed to have been the woods in the drier coastal areas of Mauritius.
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All parts of the chicken are used in Korean cuisine, including the gizzard, liver, and feet.
As well as the tortoises and the Dodo, thirteen additional species of birds became extinct among there were extincts Réunion Flightless Ibis, Broad-billed Parrot, Red Rail, Rodrigues Rail, Rodrigues Solitaire and the related dodo ( Raphus cucullatus ), in Mauritius, could swallow fruits from ocotea species, as several contemporary sources state that the dodo used gizzard stones.
The gizzard is used to grind up food, and it is part of the digestive system.
The gillaroo ( Salmo stomachius ), a richly colored species of trout found in the Irish lake, lough Melvin in County Fermanagh, has a gizzard which is used to aid the digestion of water snails, the main component of its diet.
In the Southern United States, the gizzard is typically served fried, sometimes eaten with hot sauce or honey mustard, or added to crawfish boil along with crawfish sauce, and it is also used in traditional New Orleans gumbo.
Kosher butchers often sell roasting chickens with the gizzard, neck, and feet butchered and left in the cavity to be used for making chicken soup.
Giblets consist of the heart, liver and gizzard of a bird, and are often eaten themselves or used as the basis for a soup or stock.
Gastroliths are retained in the muscular gizzard and used to grind food in animals lacking suitable grinding teeth.
They probably used their teeth to crop off food, without chewing, and relied on gastroliths ( gizzard stones ) to break down tough plant fibers ( similar to modern birds ).
used and stones
A dominant motive is the poet's longing for his homeland and its boyhood associations: `` Not men-folk, but the fields where I would stray, The stones where as a child I used to play ''.
The houses were built of unmortared stone, which means that no cement or mortar was used to hold the stones together.
The term Rococo was derived from the French word " rocaille ", which means pebbles and refers to the stones and shells used to decorate the interiors of caves.
The ancient Greeks used baskets of stones, large sacks filled with sand, and wooden logs filled with lead, which, according to Apollonius Rhodius and Stephen of Byzantium, were formed of stone ; and Athenaeus states that they were sometimes made of wood.
It was engraved on certain antique gemstones, called on that account Abraxas stones, which were used as amulets or charms.
The tombs were plundered and the stones from the beautiful edifices were brought to Limassol to be used for new constructions.
For a small category of votes a quorum of 6000 was required, principally grants of citizenship, and here small coloured stones were used, white for yes and black for no.
Emmerson Hall, built in 1913, is particularly interesting for the variety of building stones used.
" It is commonly supposed that by jactus lapidum, Fitzstephen meant the game of bowls, but though it is possible that round stones may sometimes have been employed in an early variety of the game-and there is a record of iron bowls being used, though at a much later date, on festive occasions at Nairn ,-nevertheless the inference seems unwarranted.
High end crystals, cubic zirconia simulated diamonds, and some semi-precious stones are used in place of precious stones.
The stones they used were the heavy stone weights from the weavers ' " warp beams ," fitted with a detachable handle for the purpose.
Called the Orchard Lake Curling Club, the club used hickory block " stones ".
The foundation stones of the Commonwealth ( also called the Golden Freedoms ) used to be
Monolithic columns are among the heaviest stones used in architecture.
The most commonly used ammunition were stones, but “ darts and sharp wooden poles ” could be substituted if necessary.
These forecourts are typically fronted by large stones and it is thought the area in front of the cairn was used for public rituals of some kind.
Cairn is a term used mainly in the English-speaking world for a man-made pile ( or stack ) of stones.
Assuming the stones were used for chiefly houses, it can be argued that Chamorro society was becoming more stratified, either from population growth or the arrival of new people.
Grinding wheels and polishing agents are used to grind, shape and polish the smooth dome shape of the stones.
There are many commonly used shapes for faceted stones.
Between 60 – 70 percent of the stones used today are made from Ailsa Craig granite, although the island is now a wildlife reserve and is no longer used for quarrying.
Ocellar varieties of gabbro can be used as ornamental facing stones, paving stones and it is also known by the trade name of ' black granite ', which is a popular type of graveyard headstone used in funerary rites.
used and help
One cannot help wondering whether Molotov and the rest of the `` anti-party group '' are not being used as China's whipping-boys by Khrushchev and his faithful followers.
Proceeds realized from these pageants are used by the Jaycees to help support their various youth, health, welfare and community betterment activities throughout the state.
Marc Isambard Brunel ( father of Isambard Kingdom Brunel ), with the help of Henry Maudslay and others, designed 22 types of machine tools to make the parts for the blocks used by the Royal Navy.
The absolute magnitude can be used to help calculate the apparent magnitude of a body under different conditions.
The Assyrians were prized by the British rulers for their fighting qualities, loyalty, bravery and discipline, and were used to help the British put down insurrections among the Arabs and Kurds.
* Autocorrelation in space rather than time, via the Patterson function, is used by X-ray diffractionists to help recover the " Fourier phase information " on atom positions not available through diffraction alone.
Some argue that, overall, the evidence suggests that antipsychotics only help if they are used selectively and are gradually withdrawn as soon as possible and have referred to the " Myth of the antipsychotic ".
After detoxification, other support such as group therapy or self-help groups are used to help the person remain sober.
They were also used to help sell Christmas Seals.
Bicycle suspensions are used primarily on mountain bicycles, but are also common on hybrid bicycles, and can even be found on some road bicycles, as they can help deal with problematic vibration.
The Bahá ' í teachings state that the attributes which are applied to God are used to translate Godliness into human terms and also to help individuals concentrate on their own attributes in worshipping God to develop their potentialities on their spiritual path.
As told above, Blissymbolics was used in 1971 to help children at the Ontario Crippled Children ’ s Centre ( OCCC, now the Bloorview Kids Rehab ) in Toronto, Canada.
These findings help explain the categories used in Holdridge ’ s bioclassification scheme, which were then later simplified in Whittaker ’ s.
Calendars are also used to help people manage their personal schedules, time and activities, particularly when individuals have numerous work, school, and family commitments.
For example, californium can be used to help start up nuclear reactors, and it is employed as a source of neutrons when studying materials with neutron diffraction and neutron spectroscopy.
The cutaway shot does not necessarily contribute any dramatic content of its own, but is used to help the editor assemble a longer sequence.
The term compiler-compiler is sometimes used to refer to a parser generator, a tool often used to help create the lexer and parser.
This can help solve the problem of fitting images into displays, and, furthermore, suggest what short-cuts could be used in the rendering simulation, since certain subtleties won't be noticeable.
CRM software can also be used to identify and reward loyal customers which in turn will help customer retention.
Podophyllotoxin is a plant-derived compound that is said to help with digestion as well as used to produce two other cytostatic drugs, etoposide and teniposide.
These films leave the impression that Clark Kent is really a secret identity that is used to enable Superman to serve humanity better, rather than just a role to help him assimilate into the human community.
Chinese troops used tàigǔ drums to motivate troops, to help set a marching pace, and to call out orders or announcements.
* Deduction ( food stamps ), used to calculate a household ’ s monthly food stamp benefit goods to help you eat
The funds for the Charity School for Native Americans that preceded Dartmouth College were raised primarily by the efforts of a Native American named Samson Occom, and at least some of those funds were used to help found the College.
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