Those islanders were forced to work under horrific conditions in the guano mines of Peru. |
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They rip up bin bags, deposit vast quantities of guano on our favourite statuary, and even attack people. |
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Millennia of visiting seabirds left large fossilized guano deposits on Nauru. |
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On islands off of the coasts of Peru and Chile, penguin eggs and guano are collected for local use. |
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From there the Charles Stewart crossed the Pacific to load guano in Chile for delivery to Spain via Cape Horn. |
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Its liveaboard package to the Barents Sea in January left 22 divers ice-bound for four months in a guano barge. |
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Many more cave critters die in the game because of the missing guano in the food chain. |
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Certain bats, like the short-tailed fruit bat, drop guano containing 40,000 to 50,000 seeds in a night. |
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Here the island dips into a broad, shallow depression where guano was once mined. |
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The copious guano deposition from sea birds may play a role in maintaining the present assemblage of vascular plants on both islands. |
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Their droppings over the centuries have coated offshore islands with guano hundreds of feet think. |
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Always wear a dust mask when you apply bonemeal, guano, or any other type of fertilizer that's dusty. |
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This is an extremely soft, rich mix of Canadian sphagnum peat moss, earth worm castings, bat guano, pumice and oyster shell lime. |
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We sat for ages, just gazing at the Bass Rock, its thick covering of guano making it glisten like a wedding cake in the sun. |
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She breathed in the fresh air, untainted by the smell of bat guano, and began following the trail she had marked earlier with hair scrunchies. |
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Whole cliffs of guano, the soluble nitrogen-rich excreta of seabirds, had piled high on a few rainless islands off the shores of Peru. |
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Dry cleaning of lines to recover guano and minimise the organic load of wastewater. |
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He claimed Midway for the U.S., based on the Guano Acts of 1856, which authorized Americans to temporarily occupy uninhabited islands to obtain guano. |
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Between 1850 and 1870 some 37,000 tonnes of guano were mined and trammed off Middle Island to tall sailing ships bound for developing agriculture markets in Europe. |
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They roost on an offshore platform erected to collect guano. |
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As time went by, these excremental rags slowly became stratified layers, like the guano that comes from the isles of Latin America. |
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In the dry uplands of Chile, rich mineral nitrate deposits were then found, and gradually took the place of guano in the late 19th century. |
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In the original book, Dr No, who had grand plans of his own, saw them thwarted when he was buried alive under a heap of bird guano. |
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Inadequate guano extraction has lead to habitat destruction in Peru, in the past. |
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Nutrients from the decomposing tree and guano are returned to the soil and promote the growth of new grasses. |
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In Chile, similarly, the guano industry was the main threat to the habitat of diving petrels. |
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In contrast to other sources of nitrogen, such as guano and South American sodium nitrate, which were exhaustible, there is an inexhaustible supply of nitrogen in the air. |
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One exception was a hot spot in Svalbard where Arctic char in a freshwater lake received a high load of contaminants from the guano in a nearby seabird colony. |
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Bat dung, a type of guano, is rich in nitrates and is mined from caves for use as fertilizer. |
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The present legislation, besides regulating the trade on fertilizers, sets standards for the use of breeding grounds of guano birds, and prohibits its collection in areas with nesting birds. |
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By 1850, Ichaboe, minus 800,000 tonnes of guano, was deserted again. Between 1840 and 1880, guano nitrogen made a vast difference to European agriculture. |
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Today the guano is long gone, but the pile of money remains. |
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The rocks were covered with ghost seabird colonies miles of stony ledges covered in guano deposited over millennia, with hardly a bird to be seen. |
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The main fertilizer is made from ingredients such as fish meal, composted seabird guano, soybean extract, potassium carbonate and raw sugar cane extract. |
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Spain also fought several wars against Chile and Peru for the guano deposits of their islands. |
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Indirectly, fisheries have also benefited from guano from colonies of seabirds acting as fertilizer for the surrounding seas. |
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The Birds of Peru produce large amounts of guano, an economically important export. |
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This hiatus ended in the 1850s, when increased public and private revenues from guano exports led to a rapid development of the city. |
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Furthermore, it has recovered a waste product: the guano. |
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Florida fishermen know each anhinga produces 50 pounds of guano for every bluegill he eats. |
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Off South-West Africa, the discovery in 1843 of the tiny island of Ichaboe, covered in 25 feet of penguin and gannet excrement, led to a guano rush followed by a mutiny and battles. |
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Our purpose is to provide an overview of the overlooked potential of guano and to encourage chiropteran biologists to make use of this resource. |
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Bat dung has been mined as guano from caves and used as fertilizer. |
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Nycteribiidae and Streblidae are hematophagous with piecing mouthparts, but adults of Mystacinobiidae feeds on guano and are merely phoretic on bats. |
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By the 1860s this had grown to a larger scale operation with Peruvian slave raids in the South Sea Islands to collect labor for the guano industry. |
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The psocid Phyllipsocus ramburi was collected by hand from guano. |
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