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What's the Difference Between Buzzards and Vultures?
#bigquestions #animals #buzzards #vultures
There are two names for the bald-headed birds of prey that feed on roadkill and circle lost characters in cartoons: vultures and buzzards. At least that's the case in North America. In other parts of the world, buzzards and vultures are two different birds.
Vulture is the easiest word to define, because the name describes the same animal in all English-speaking countries. The birds are scavengers known for their distinct, featherless heads. There are 23 species of vulture found throughout the globe, include the turkey vulture and the Andean condor.
Buzzard has become a slang term for vultures in the United States, but it's used much differently across the Atlantic. In the UK and elsewhere, buzzard is a name for a type of hawk. Buzzards, which cover the genus Buteo, are medium- to large-sized raptors that feed on small birds, mammals, and carrion. There are 26 hawk species with the word buzzard in their name, including the European honey-buzzard, the lizard buzzard, and the common buzzard. Members of the Buteo group are native to North America as well, but here they're simply referred to as hawks.
So how did vultures became buzzards in America? You can blame early European colonists. When these settlers first saw vultures flying high above them in the sky, they likely noticed a resemblance to the broad-winged, dark-feathered birds of prey from back home. By the time they saw vultures up close and realized they weren't hawks, the name had already gained traction.
This isn't the only case of Americans using an animal name in a confusing way. Here, opossums are often called possums for short, even though possum is the name of an entirely different marsupial species native to Australia. So if you're traveling abroad and want to tell someone you saw a buzzard eating a possum, choose your words carefully.
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Why Do People Propose on One Knee?
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#bigquestions #propose #propose_status If you’re expecting a marriage proposal pretty soon and your partner starts to sink to one knee, you should check to see if their shoe is untied. If it’s not, steel yourself for a certain yes-or-no question. In addition to being a handy heads-up, kneeling to propose presumably has roots in some age-old historical practice-or a combination of several. As Ma...
Where Did the Phrase 'Fall Off the Wagon' Originate?
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#bigquestions #language Certain idioms don’t need much of an explanation to make sense. If you’re “playing with fire,” chances are you’re metaphorically doing something recklessly that could bring severe consequences. If you’re “dropping your guard,” you’re lowering your defenses. Other sayings are more difficult to parse. What does “falling off the wagon” have to do with excessive alcohol cons...
What Exactly Is a Nor’easter?
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#bigquestions #noreaster Soon after your local meteorologist utters something about a nor’easter, batteries and other essentials start flying off store shelves. For many, the word basically means huge storm-and rightly so. Nor’easters have earned their reputation for wreaking havoc on land. But what qualifies a storm as a nor’easter? As the National Weather Service explains, nor’easters occur o...
Are You Legally Required to Shovel Your Sidewalk?
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#bigquestions #shovel #sidewalk When there's snow piling up outside your front door, you may be desperate for an excuse not to shovel it. Unfortunately, not owning the property immediately surrounding your home doesn't automatically get you off the hook. Depending on where you live, you still may have to shovel your sidewalk after a snowstorm. Sidewalks are typically the property of the municip...
Why Do We Say “PU” When Something Stinks?
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#bigquestions #language #deodrant Fun though it would be, PU does not stand for “Pretty unsavory!”, “Putrid, ugh!”, or even “Please use (deodorant)!” In fact, it’s not an initialism at all. According to Grammarphobia, the exclamation likely derives from the early 17th-century word pew, which the Oxford English Dictionary defines as “expressing contempt, disgust, or derision.” It’s also been spe...
Why Do Quarterbacks Say 'Hut'?
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#bigquestions #quarterback To the unlearned ear, the linguistics of cricket can be difficult to decipher. A player might hit a googly (a throw that veers sharply to the leg side of a right-handed batsman, if that clarifies things) or grab a lolly (an easy catch). Break one’s duck and you’ll be scoring the first run in an inning. Do you find this befuddling? Imagine how someone versed in cricket...
Vaccination vs. Immunization vs. Inoculation: What's the Difference?
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#bigquestions #vaccination #immunizations #inoculation Back in the 15th century, the word inoculate referred to grafting a bud (or another plant part) onto a separate plant in order to cultivate that new plant. It derived from the Latin verb inoculāre, meaning to graft or to implant, which itself derived from the Latin noun for eye or bud: oculus. Over time, people started using it for just abo...
What Exactly Is White Noise?
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#bigquestions #whitenoise When people mention white noise these days, they might be talking about any continuous noise that blocks out other sounds or just seems soothing. Strictly speaking, however, a playlist of LEGO bricks calmly clinking in the background isn’t technically “white noise.” As Live Science explains, white noise is a combination of all the sound frequencies humans can hear-abou...
How Do Potholes Form?
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#bigquestions #potholes Nothing interrupts a pleasant drive more than the sudden klunk of passing over a pothole. Your beverage spills. You begin to get anxious about tire damage. You wonder why city officials haven’t fixed it yet. But how do potholes form in the first place? Lay the blame on science. When water seeps into the rock, gravel, and soil underneath asphalt and then freezes, it expan...
What's the Difference Between Copyright, Trademark, and Patents?
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#bigquestions #copyright #trademark #patents The concept of protecting intellectual property-a.k.a. any product derived from an idea-appeared as early as 500 BCE, when Greek chefs were granted year-long exclusive rights for creating specific cuisines. Although we’ve come a long way since then, the goal of all intellectual property protection remains the same: To prevent the unlawful copying of ...
Blue Collar vs. White Collar Jobs: What’s the Difference?
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#bigquestions #bluecollar #whitecollar In the early 20th century, American industrialization gave rise to a new sartorial distinction between classes. Managers, administrators, and anyone else who worked in an office favored crisp, white shirts on the job. Manual laborers, meanwhile, donned dark, durable attire better suited to factory and farm work. Before long, the “white collar” became both ...
All-Season Tires vs. Snow Tires: What's the Difference?
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#bigquestions #tires If you reside in a part of the country prone to heavy snowfall, you’ve probably experienced the jolt of fear that accompanies briefly losing control of your vehicle. Tires slide and skid across icy or slippery surfaces; the steering wheel stops responding. For a moment, you’re in trouble. While there are strategies to steer out of skids and other road hazards, one key safeg...
The Reason You Should Never Spread Rock Salt on Concrete Driveways
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#bigquestions #salt #rocksalt #concrete #driveways People living in regions with harsh winters are familiar with the hazards of a slick and icy driveway. Under the right conditions, pavement can turn into the equivalent of an ice rink, so that every step you take is bursting with the potential of taking a fall and having to nurse a bruised rib or elbow-or worse. The solution to this winter cala...
Can Honey Go Bad?
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#bigquestions #honey Virtually every food has a shelf life. For produce, it can be days. For canned goods and other pantry items, it's typically months-if not years. But one food seems almost incapable of spoiling: honey. If you’ve ever found yourself reaching for a bottle you’ve had since the VHS era and wondered if it could go bad, the answer is: probably not. Here’s why. According to Simplem...
Sympathy vs. Empathy: What’s the Difference?
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Sympathy vs. Empathy: What’s the Difference?
Why Are Bathtubs So Small? The Answer Is More Complex Than You Might Imagine
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Why Are Bathtubs So Small? The Answer Is More Complex Than You Might Imagine
Why Do We Say 'Cut to the Chase'?
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Why Do We Say 'Cut to the Chase'?
Why Do Cats Have Whiskers?
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Why Do Cats Have Whiskers?
Is It Possible to Burp and Fart at the Same Time?
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Is It Possible to Burp and Fart at the Same Time?
How Warm Is Lukewarm?
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How Warm Is Lukewarm?
Can Bird Poop Damage Cars?
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Can Bird Poop Damage Cars?
The Smart Reason There Are Black Lines on Basketballs
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The Smart Reason There Are Black Lines on Basketballs
Solstice vs. Equinox: What’s the Difference?
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Solstice vs. Equinox: What’s the Difference?
Why Do Eggshells Sometimes Have Weird Bumps and Spots?
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Why Do Eggshells Sometimes Have Weird Bumps and Spots?
Why Do Dogs Yawn?
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Why Do Dogs Yawn?
Hair in Your Food Is Gross-But Is It Dangerous to Your Health?
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Hair in Your Food Is Gross-But Is It Dangerous to Your Health?
What Are NFTs Anyway?
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What Are NFTs Anyway?
What's the Difference Between Men's and Women's Razors?
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What's the Difference Between Men's and Women's Razors?
Brown Eggs vs. White Eggs: What’s the Difference?
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Brown Eggs vs. White Eggs: What’s the Difference?

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  • @kickazz9473
    @kickazz9473 День тому

    Vultures creep me out idk why. Their just so dang big and look mean 😂

  • @18deadmonkeys
    @18deadmonkeys 12 днів тому

    people out there hand stuffing their own olives and I'm just over here buying jars of peanut butter with the jelly already swirled in.

  • @Trobtwillis
    @Trobtwillis 15 днів тому

    Tasty Stuff. 😋💭

  • @justinmadair
    @justinmadair 18 днів тому

    AI Ellen Degeneres?!?! hahahahaha!

  • @JEM_19
    @JEM_19 24 дні тому

    I am doing a Ted talk about fox 0:53 and this is really useful. Thank you.❤

  • @eeayquetting5963
    @eeayquetting5963 Місяць тому

    It would have been really cool to see a black diamond apple in this video about black diamond apples...

  • @agnisamansfield4038
    @agnisamansfield4038 Місяць тому

    7097 Romaguera Highway

  • @benlap1977
    @benlap1977 Місяць тому

    AI generated rubbish showing... south african ground squirrels?

  • @RuthAllen-y9j
    @RuthAllen-y9j Місяць тому

    13708 Bryana Pike

  • @BarbaraMoore-b8q
    @BarbaraMoore-b8q Місяць тому

    Lee Betty Lewis Sarah Taylor Jessica

  • @robertodiaz1597
    @robertodiaz1597 Місяць тому

    Great Video!

  • @midsega
    @midsega Місяць тому

    bologna

  • @BatCorkill
    @BatCorkill Місяць тому

    Thank you, I was using disk when I should have used disk.

  • @KikiMorris-c1p
    @KikiMorris-c1p Місяць тому

    Very informative and helpful. Thank you!

  • @redmuskratt
    @redmuskratt Місяць тому

    Did you just call kentuckians pretentious? And if so, would you like to fight about it?

  • @heinzbucksandcastle2053
    @heinzbucksandcastle2053 Місяць тому

    This stuff sucks, my roommate brought this crap home and the whole house smelled, it is terrible.

  • @People2.0_pilz3
    @People2.0_pilz3 Місяць тому

    Ed balls

  • @davidleatherbarrow2640
    @davidleatherbarrow2640 2 місяці тому

    How Pointless was that. It seems that YOU do Not know the difference but just want to hear Your own voice. What a Loser.

  • @Nolacon-j4o
    @Nolacon-j4o 2 місяці тому

    1:49 That's Thomas Jefferson's picture, not John Adams.

  • @austinbaldwin7836
    @austinbaldwin7836 2 місяці тому

    What the heck You didn't have any footage of spiked wheels

  • @ianhobbs4984
    @ianhobbs4984 2 місяці тому

    I took a Taste Test between Black and White pepper by eating one peppercorn of each and White is definitely superior to Black and so I haven't used Black for over 10 years now.

  • @sleepybearpermaculture1936
    @sleepybearpermaculture1936 2 місяці тому

    0% helpful.

  • @Wargasm54
    @Wargasm54 2 місяці тому

    And couldn’t even show one? 😂

  • @patricew.4010
    @patricew.4010 2 місяці тому

    I was wondering...and now i knkw.

  • @WafflesWithGabagool
    @WafflesWithGabagool 2 місяці тому

    I’m eating olives right now and had to know! The engineering of the pit punch is mind blowing!

  • @mattlambert3118
    @mattlambert3118 3 місяці тому

    I wonder if the AI that made this video ever thought about it being genital warts because sex is one of the witch's most powerful tools of domination. Witches go around seducing people so they can emotionally manipulate or blackmail them all the time. Stands to reason that they're going to be much more likely to have sexually transmitted diseases than the chaste members of the community. Witches are people with extremely dangerous personality disorders. Europe took a lot of the more dangerous ones out of society and the gene pool in the witch trials, but the sexual revolution allows them to spread and corrupt the world unchecked. Now they're probably around 6% of the population almost everything you believe is probably determined by which witch did a better job of manipulating you.

  • @user-lt2qy5wn8c
    @user-lt2qy5wn8c 3 місяці тому

    Not one word about the difference between state and commonwealth

  • @SpringScapes
    @SpringScapes 3 місяці тому

    First one to comment. Great video, thanks.

  • @johnmurray3888
    @johnmurray3888 3 місяці тому

    Is it "wasteful practice" to always wear a condom while having sex?

  • @marhec69
    @marhec69 3 місяці тому

    This is interesting, thanks for educating us!

  • @gintorino4616
    @gintorino4616 3 місяці тому

    Why does it have so much vitamin c though? Did they inject it with c lol😅.

  • @kamkelevra
    @kamkelevra 3 місяці тому

    What day is it Sister???

  • @generalzod7959
    @generalzod7959 3 місяці тому

    I do enjoy the stuff!

  • @allengreg5447
    @allengreg5447 3 місяці тому

    You can do what I do and avoid exercise entirely.

  • @OfficialSylvantis
    @OfficialSylvantis 3 місяці тому

    I’ll save you 3 minutes. It’s because it’s the first episode ON THE AIR!

  • @AprilTeniente-eu1mj
    @AprilTeniente-eu1mj 3 місяці тому

    Well, that’s why children got in trouble for misbehaving and for throwing fits and for screaming and yelling at their parents’ houses and in classes and other places!! They’re not doing homework!!

  • @CatherineMontague-rc8pu
    @CatherineMontague-rc8pu 4 місяці тому

    Thanks

  • @smichelle65
    @smichelle65 4 місяці тому

    AI has ruined UA-cam.

  • @yuriwho-q2h
    @yuriwho-q2h 4 місяці тому

    watching this while eating something sour

  • @garynicholls1448
    @garynicholls1448 4 місяці тому

    There must be a lot of marathon runners in the Bourbon Street area of New Orleans because there is human excrement everywhere first thing in the morning.

  • @smasher420
    @smasher420 4 місяці тому

    Greg

  • @Hannah_Banana371
    @Hannah_Banana371 4 місяці тому

    I’m your first like an comment

  • @CPSYPaulianthangHauzel
    @CPSYPaulianthangHauzel 4 місяці тому

    First like first comment.. why only me?

  • @williemclean2607
    @williemclean2607 4 місяці тому

    😅

  • @MilkaSingh-rt6zp
    @MilkaSingh-rt6zp 5 місяців тому

    Reading the fine print is what I learned something when I lived in America. Because only in America you have 1. Products with label as butter is not actually butter but butter flavored oil/garbage 2. Products labelled as cheese are not real cheese 3. Ice-creams are not really ice-cream but frozen desert.

  • @FracturedReality
    @FracturedReality 5 місяців тому

    Another stupid AI video

  • @AltoonaYourPiano
    @AltoonaYourPiano 5 місяців тому

    Excellent video, there were also A, B, and C radio batteries which were huge. Before the letter sizes (AAA, AA, A, B, C, D, F, G) they came in number sizes as standards, the No. 1 through No. 6, each in their height in inches. The No. 1 was like a small C cell (originally made by forming its zinc casing around a broom handle) and the No. 2 was like a slightly large D battery (formed around a shovel handle). Eveready's flashlights in 1898 were meant to take No. 2 cells but the size was wrong, so they made their own flashlight batteries (the size that eventually became the D), the B was called a "bedside torch battery", the C was a "junior flashlight battery", and the single A was a "miniature light battery". The size that became the AA was called a penlight battery (very similar to a size called the Z battery, primarily made by Burgess, imagine a slightly short AA battery). F and G cells were used in lantern batteries and radio batteries.

  • @marcpeterson1092
    @marcpeterson1092 6 місяців тому

    I don't even need to watch the video. The pimentos are nesting. Seeing them fly up and climb in those holes is my favorite sign of Spring.

  • @AusWal10
    @AusWal10 6 місяців тому

    Man, from Flash to Rick and Morty I have had so many questions but now they’re all answered

  • @grantbaker5612
    @grantbaker5612 6 місяців тому

    🙋 Promo SM