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Web Design Company in Hubli | SEO Belgaum | Website Development, Hosting in Bangalore Ask a Local: What Should I Do/See/Eat in Bologna, Italy? | The Ramble Photo credit. Welcome back to Ask a Local, a series of posts in which I interview locals all over the world about what to see, where to go, what to eat, and how to fit in in their city or town. Today, I’m thrilled to introduce you to Alessandro Ferin, a traveler, foodie, and native to Bologna, Italy. He’s here to give you the inside scoop on his vibrant, foodie-heaven hometown: Bologna. First, tell us about you! I am a native-born Bolognese and have lived in Bologna almost my entire life (with the exception of one year where I lived abroad in the UK and Denmark). If someone is visiting Bologna for the first time, what do you recommend they see or do? They should, EAT! In between eating, go out and see Piazza Maggiore and Statua del Nettuo (the Fountain of Neptune), walk in Via Indipendenza (the main street of Bologna), or go out at night to drink (and eat, obviously) in Via del Pratello or Via Zamboni. Photo credit. What neighborhoods or parts of town are best to stay in? Photo credit.

Why marine animals can't stop eating plastic #BluePlanet2 | Our Blue Planet Plastic doesn’t just look like food, it smells, feels and even sounds like food. In a recent interview about Blue Planet II, David Attenborough describes a sequence in which an albatross arrives at its nest to feed its young. “And what comes out of the mouth?” he says. “Not fish, and not squid – which is what they mostly eat. Plastic.” It is, as Attenborough says, heartbreaking. It’s small comfort to discover that albatrosses are not alone. The prevalence of plastic consumption is partly a consequence of this sheer quantity. Like zooplankton, the tentacled, cylindrical creatures known as sea cucumbers don’t seem too fussy about what they eat as they crawl around the ocean beds, scooping sediment into their mouths to extract edible matter. For sea cucumbers, plastic particles may simply be larger and easier to grab with their feeding tentacles than more conventional food items, but in other species there are indications that plastic consumption is more than just a passive process.

Following Battles, Ant Medics Treat Their Wounded Comrades An African ant, Megaponera analis, carries an injured soldier from the battlefield. (Credit: Erik Frank) Ants that hunt termites can risk getting grievously injured in battle, but that doesn’t mean its the end of the line. In a newly published study, scientists observed ant medics caring for their wounded comrades, which may be the first scientifically documented example of such medical care in the animal kingdom outside humanity. The African ant Megaponera analis specializes in hunting termites. “The colony only has between 10 to 20 scouts at a time looking for food, and these scouts make all the important decisions about where to forage and how large the army should be that goes out,” said study lead author Erik Frank, a behavioral ecologist who carried out this research at the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg in Germany. Ant Medics to the Rescue These raids are dangerous for the invaders — termite soldiers often bite the limbs off ants. Order to Treatment