"'super premium' version of Old Speckled Hen. Released in September 2008, it is marketed as combining the tastes of Speckled Hen and a former Greene King brand, 'Old 5X'. Neil Jardine, of Greene King claims that Crafty Hen is ""a genuinely exceptional beer"". Crafty Hen is significantly stronger than Speckled Hen, having been matured for several years, giving it a less pronounced flavour that varies from one batch to the next. Old Crafty was listed as number three in ""The Independent""<nowiki>'s</nowiki> ""Top Ten Best Winter Ales"". Old Golden Hen was launched in August 2011, it is a light golden ale."
"may question whether or not they may die of old age). A giant sequoia, General Sherman is alive and well in its third millennium. A Great Basin Bristlecone Pine called Methuselah is 4,848 years old (as of 2017) and the Bristlecone Pine called Prometheus was a little older still, at least 4,844 years (and possibly as old as 5,000 years), when it was cut down in 1964. The oldest known plant (possibly oldest living thing) is a clonal Quaking Aspen (""Populus tremuloides"") tree colony in the Fishlake National Forest in Utah called Pando at about 80,000 years. Lichen, a symbiotic"
"argued that the cutting down of Prometheus was an important factor in the movement to protect bristlecones in general, and the Wheeler Peak groves in particular. There had been a movement to protect the mountain and contiguous areas as a national park before the incident, and 22 years later the area gained national park status. In August 2014, marking the fiftieth anniversary of the tree's cutting, a two-day memorial for Prometheus was held in Great Basin National Park by artist Jeff Weiss. Prometheus (tree) Prometheus (recorded as WPN-114) was the oldest known non-clonal organism, a Great Basin bristlecone pine (""Pinus"
"(Malta), ""Cynodon dactylon"", (Spain), ""Dactylis glomerata"" (British Isles, Europe), ""Elymus repens"", (Lebanon), ""Elytrigia repens"" (Spain), ""Holcus lanatus"" (British Isles), ""Hordeum"" (Malta), ""Melica nutans"", (Finland), ""Melica uniflora"" (Europe), ""Oryzopsis miliacea"" (Spain), ""Poa annua"" (Lebanon), ""Poa nemoralis"" (Czechoslovakia), ""Poa trivialis"" (Czechoslovakia), but the preferred species of grass is the couch grass (""Elytrigia repens""). The adult is nectar feeding. The growth and development of the speckled wood butterfly is dependent on the larval density and the sex of the individual. High larval densities result in decreased survivorship as well as a longer development and smaller adults. However, females are much more adversely affected"
"clonal colony organisms, such as the 80,000-year-old Quaking Aspen (""Populus tremuloides"") colony named ""Pando"" in the Fish Lake National Forest in south-central Utah; the 11,700-year- old Creosote bush (""Larrea tridentata"") colony, named ""King Clone"", in the Mojave Desert near the Lucerne Valley in California; and the 9,500-year-old Norway spruce (""Picea abies"") colony named ""Old Tjikko"" in Sweden. Methuselah (tree) Methuselah is a -year-old Great Basin bristlecone pine (""Pinus longaeva"") tree growing high in the White Mountains of Inyo County in eastern California. For many years it was thought to be the world's oldest known living non-clonal organism, until it was"
"""Hunnewell planted every tree here since he was 45 (now 88) except one – an oak 250 years old."" In 2010 the International Dendrology Society awarded an IDS plaque, its highest honor, to the Hunnewell estate – the first ever for an American garden. The pinetum, begun in 1867, includes rare, mature specimens of ""Torreya nucifera"" (Japanese nutmeg yew), ""Tsuga canadensis pendula"" (Sargent's weeping hemlock), ""Cedrus libani"" (Cedar of Lebanon), ""Juniperus formosana"" (Taiwan juniper), and ""Metasequoia glyptostroboides"" (dawn redwood) – one of the oldest specimens in the United States. In front of the 1851 residence is a massive weeping European"
"At treeline is an alpine area of low, delicate plants and rocky outcroppings. The oldest nonclonal organism ever discovered, a Great Basin bristlecone pine tree at least 5,000 years old, grew at the treeline near Wheeler Peak in the national park. It was cut down in 1964 by a graduate student and U.S. Forest Service personnel for research purposes. It was given the nickname Prometheus, after the mythological figure who stole fire from the gods and gave it to man. Sixty-one species of mammals, 18 species of reptiles, 238 species of birds, two species of amphibians, and eight species of"
"Prometheus (tree) Prometheus (recorded as WPN-114) was the oldest known non-clonal organism, a Great Basin bristlecone pine (""Pinus longaeva"") tree growing near the tree line on Wheeler Peak in eastern Nevada, United States. The tree, which was at least 4,862 years old and possibly more than 5,000, was cut down in 1964 by a graduate student and United States Forest Service personnel for research purposes. Those involved did not know of its world-record age before the cutting, but the circumstances and decision-making process remain controversial. The tree's name refers to the mythological figure Prometheus, who stole fire from the gods"
"A 2002 report estimated nearly of old growth in the Forest. The old growth includes coast Douglas fir (""Pseudotsuga menziesii var. menziesii""), Ponderosa pine (""Pinus ponderosa""), white fir (""Abies concolor""), sugar pine (""Pinus lambertiana""), California incense cedar (""Calocedrus decurrens""), California black oak (""Quercus kelloggii""), lodgepole pine (""Pinus contorta"") and red fir (""Abies magnifica""). A number of species of invasive weeds have been recorded in the Forest, including thistles, knapweeds, mustards, toadflaxes, daisies, brooms, and aquatic. Placer County ""Big Trees"" Grove is a giant sequoia grove located in the American River watershed of Tahoe National Forest. It is known as a"
"in Hierakonopolis (Nekhen), which used to be the religious and political capital of Upper Egypt at that time. This may be evidence that the animal used to occur in North Africa and was associated with the ancient Egyptians. Blue wildebeest The blue wildebeest (""Connochaetes taurinus""), also called the common wildebeest, white-bearded wildebeest, or brindled gnu, is a large antelope and one of the two species of wildebeests. It is placed in the genus ""Connochaetes"" and family Bovidae, and has a close taxonomic relationship with the black wildebeest. The blue wildebeest is known to have five subspecies. This broad-shouldered antelope has"
"at Bank Hall Gardens, Bretherton in Lancashire, contains a yew thought to be at least 550 years old, the oldest in Lancashire. George Anthony Legh Keck had the arboretum planted in the gardens which were abandoned from the 1970s until 1995 when Bank Hall Action Group cleared the grounds. It contains one of two known fallen ""Sequoia sempervirens"" in the UK, ""Wellingtonia"", dawn redwood (""Metasequoia glyptostroboides""), Atlas cedar (""Cedrus atlantica""), western hemlock (""Tsuga heterophylla""), Chinese swamp cypress and yew. Recent additions by the Action Group include paperbark maple (""Acer griseum"") (2004), cedar of Lebanon (""Cedrus libani"") (2005), further yew and"
"Tundra (""Sphagnum magellanicum"") and the Pulvinada Tundra (""Donatia fascicularis"" - ""Astelia pumilia""). At higher altitudes, the terrain is Andean Desert, which lacks trees or tall shrubs and is less than 30% covered by vegetation. Cultural historical sites are Bahia Wulaia and the English Mission of Douglas Creek. The large Stirling House, an iron Meccano construction brought in 1869 from England by the Anglican English missionaries, used to be in Ushuaia. It was moved to Tekenika Bay, and then was installed for mission use at Douglas Creek. In the Yahgan cemetery at Mejillones Bay, tombs dating from the first half of"
"Mere Beck Meadows Mere Beck Meadows, formerly known as Willoughby Hall Meadows, is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in the Teesdale district of County Durham, England. It consists of three hay meadows, situated on the south side of Hury Reservoir, immediately below the Blackton Reservoir dam. The site is important as preserving a rich assemblage of plant species, in a habitat that is becoming increasingly scarcer as a result of intensive agricultural practices. A wide variety of flowering plants is found, many in abundance, such as wood cranesbill, ""Geranium sylvaticum"", meadow saxifrage, ""Saxifraga granulata"", melancholy thistle, ""Cirsium helenioides"", and"
"and gave it to man. The designation WPN-114 was given by the original researcher, Donald Rusk Currey, and means it was the 114th tree he sampled in his research in Nevada's White Pine County. Prometheus was a living member of a population of bristlecone pine trees near the tree line on the lateral moraine of a former glacier on Wheeler Peak, in Great Basin National Park, eastern Nevada. Wheeler Peak is the highest mountain in the Snake Range, and the highest mountain entirely in the state of Nevada. The bristlecone pine population on this mountain is divided into at least"
"hairy woodpecker (Picoides villosus), Steller's jay (""Cyanocitta stelleri""), common raven (""Corvus corax""), mountain chickadee (""Poecile gambell""), white-breasted nuthatch (""Sitta carolinensis""). brown creeper (Certhia americana), and dark-eyed junco (""Junco hyemalis"") and several mammals. including California ground squirrel (""Spermophilys beecheyi""), North American beaver (""Castor canadensis""), raccoon (""Procyon lotor""), and mule deer (""Odocoileus hemionus""). The primary fish species that are present through the project reach are brook trout (""Salvelinus fontinalis""), rainbow trout (""Oncorhynchus myklss""), brown trout (""Salmo trutta""), and Paiute sculpin (""Cottus beldingi""). All of these fish species, except for the sculpin, are introduced species. The presence of highly aggressive salmonids, such as"
"European hedgehog (""Erinaceus europaeus""), lesser hedgehog tenrec (""Echinops telfairi""), zebra finch (""Taeniopygia guttata""), chicken, platypus (""Ornithorhynchus anatinus""), Western clawed frog (""Xenopus tropicalis""), Carolina anole (""Anolis carolinensis""), zebrafish (""Danio rerio""), Japanese pufferfish (""Fugu rubripes""), green spotted pufferfish (""Tetraodon nigroviridis""), Japanese killifish (""Oryzias latipes""), three-spined stickleback (""Gasterosteus aculeatus""), Florida lancelet (""Branchiostoma floridae""), California purple sea urchin (""Strongylocentrotus purpuratus""), 12 different species of fruit fly (""Drosophila""), Western honey bee (""Apis mellifera""), mosquito (""Anopheles gambiae""), red flour beetle (""Tribolium castaneum""), the nematode ""Caenorhabditis elegans"", owl limpet (""Lottia gigantea""), starlet sea anemone (""Nematostella vectensis"") and the blood fluke ""Schistosoma japonicum"". In some of these species"
"(""Cypripedium calceolus""), ligularia (""Ligularia sibirica""), bellflower of mountain (""Campanula alpina""), yellow monkshood (""Aconitum antthora""), belladonna (""Atropa belladonna""), rustyback (""Asplenium ceterach""), windflower (""Anemone nemorosa""), yellow anemone (""Anemone ranunculoides""), common moonwort (""Botrychium lunaria""), ivy white (""Daphne blagayana""), crown vetch (""Coronilla varia""). Species of mammals: brown bear (""Ursus arctos""), deer (""Cervus elaphus""), roe deer (""Capreolus capreolus""), gray wolf (""Canis lupus""), wild boar (""Sus scrofa""), lynx (""lynx lynx""), fox (""vulpes vulpes""), pine marten (""Martes martes""), squirrel (""Sciurus carolinensis""), alpine shrew (""Sorex alpinus""), brown long-eared bat (""Plecotus auritus""), lesser mouse-eared bat (""Myotis blythii""), barbastelle (""Barbastella barbastellus""); Species of birds: western capercaillie (""Tetrao urogallus""), rock bunting"
"Methuselah (tree) Methuselah is a -year-old Great Basin bristlecone pine (""Pinus longaeva"") tree growing high in the White Mountains of Inyo County in eastern California. For many years it was thought to be the world's oldest known living non-clonal organism, until it was superseded in 2012 by the discovery of another bristlecone pine in the same area with an age of years (germination in 3050 BC). Methuselah is located between above sea level in the ""Methuselah Grove"" in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest within the Inyo National Forest. Its exact location has not been publicly disclosed. Methuselah was 4,789 years"
"fulva""), greater hoopoe-lark (""Alaemon alaudipes""), greater short-toed lark (""Calandrella brachydactyla""), helmeted guineafowl (""Numida meleagris""), hottentot teal (""Anas hottentota""), lanner falcon (""Falco biarmicus""), lappet-faced vulture (""Torgos tracheliotus""), laughing dove (""Streptopelia senegalensis""), Lichtenstein's sandgrouse (""Pterocles lichtensteinii""), little owl (""Athene noctua""), northern wheatear (""Oenanthe oenanthe""), Nubian bustard (""Neotis Nuba""), pallid swift (""Apus pallidus""), pygmy sunbird (""Anthreptes platurus""), red-billed teal (""Anas erythrorhyncha""), rock dove (""Columba livia""), rock martin (""Ptyonoprogne fuligula""), rufous-tailed scrub robin (""Erythropygia galactotes""), Rüppell's warbler (""Sylvia rueppelli""), sand martin (""Riparia riparia""), southern grey shrike (""Lanius meridionalis""), spotted sandgrouse (""Pterocles senegallus""), striolated bunting (""Emberiza striolata""), subalpine warbler (""Sylvia cantillans""), Sudan golden sparrow (""Passer"
"speckled dace live in the streams of the National Monument. The Welsh's milkweed, a threatened plant species that grows on sand dunes and helps stabilize them, is known to exist only in this National Monument and one other area in neighboring Utah. Human settlement in the region dates back 12,000 years, and hundreds of Native American pueblos are spread across this National Monument. The remains of the natives' villages, with houses, granaries, burial areas, and associated ruins, can be found here. This National Monument also contains one of the largest number of rock art sites in any nationally protected area."
"Leyburn Old Glebe Leyburn Old Glebe Nature Reserve is an SSSI managed by the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust. It is about east of the village of Wensley and southwest of Leyburn. The site is a traditionally-managed 3 hectare meadow on a south-facing slope, overlooking the River Ure. It is one of the best preserved unimproved meadows in the Yorkshire Dales. A small number of sheep graze the meadow each year, after the flowers have set seed, preventing the area becoming overgrown. Many unusual flowers can be seen there, including Neottia ovata, Orchis mascula, Anacamptis morio and Neotinea ustulata. The Wildlife Trust"
"Tree. The East Asian collection includes Cork Trees, Japanese Red and White Magnolia, Flowering Quince, and various Honeysuckles. The Northern America collection includes American Beech, Yellow Buckeye, Cucumbertree Magnolia, Tulip Tree, Ponderosa Pine, Colorado Spruce, and Douglas Fir. Other woody plants include Basswood, Red Buckeye, Black Cherry, American Chestnut, Dogwood, Fringe Tree, Hackberry, Hemiptelea, Japanese Pagoda Tree, Shagbark Hickory, Umbrella Magnolia, Scarlet Oak, White Oak, Redbud, Carolina Silverbell, Sourwood, Sweetgum, Viburnum, Black Walnut, and Wisteria. The gardens include a Butterfly Garden, Daylily Garden, Demonstration Gardens, Fountain Garden, Grass Garden, Hosta Garden, Nancy Olson Children's Garden, and a Prehistoric Garden (with"
"oak (""Quercus robur""), sallow (""Salix cinerea""), elder (""Sambucus nigra""), elm (""Ulmus"" spp.) and medlar (""Mespilus germanica""). Among notable introduced species, the cabbage palm (""Cordyline australis"") has been planted in coastal areas and may be seen in many gardens. Notable marine species include the ormer, conger, bass, undulate ray, grey mullet, ballan wrasse and garfish. Marine mammals include the bottlenosed dolphin and grey seal. Historically the island has given its name to a variety of overly-large cabbage, the Jersey cabbage, also known as Jersey kale or cow cabbage. Japanese Knotweed ""Fallopia japonica"" is an invasive species that threatens Jersey's biodiversity. It"
"of her own, ""Nelly Gnu and Daddy Too"". Wildebeest Wildebeests, also called gnus, are antelopes in the genus Connochaetes. They belong to the family Bovidae, which includes antelopes, cattle, goats, sheep, and other even-toed horned ungulates. ""Connochaetes"" includes two species, both native to Africa: the black wildebeest or white-tailed gnu (""C. gnou""), and the blue wildebeest or brindled gnu (""C. taurinus""). Fossil records suggest these two species diverged about one million years ago, resulting in a northern and a southern species. The blue wildebeest remained in its original range and changed very little from the ancestral species, while the black"
"and slightly fewer calories per gram. Their eggs are substantially richer than those of chickens. Guineafowl Guineafowl (; sometimes called ""pet speckled hen"", or ""original fowl"") are birds of the family Numididae in the order Galliformes. They are endemic to Africa and rank among the oldest of the gallinaceous birds. Phylogenetically, they branch off from the core Galliformes after the Cracidae and before the Odontophoridae. An Eocene fossil lineage, ""Telecrex"", has been associated with guineafowl. ""Telecrex"" inhabited Mongolia, and may have given rise to the oldest of the true Phasianids such as ""Ithaginis"" and ""Crossoptilon"", which evolved into high-altitude montane-adapted"
"great egret (""Ardea alba"") and the great blue heron (""Ardea herodias""). A great variety of ducks can also be found to include the blue-winged teal (""Anas discors""), the rudy duck (""Oxyura jamaicensis""), besides the aforementioned West Indian whistling duck and the white-cheeked pintail. The brown pelican (""Pelecanus occidentalis"") also resides in this area. Mammals are represented by six species contained in six families. Three of these species are native: the velvety free-tailed bat (""Molossus molossus""), the Jamaican fruit bat (""Artibeus jamaicensis"") and the West Indian manatee (""Trichechus manatus manatus""). The latter is a marine mammal threatened with extinction that uses"
"common bird-foot-trefoil (""Lotus corniculatus""). Less frequent species are lady's-mantle (""Alchemilla vulgaris""), dyer's greenweed (""Genista tinctoria""), corky-fruited water-dropwort (""Oenanthe pimpinelloides"") and adders-tongue (""Ophioglossum vulgatum""). Soft rush (""Juncus effusus""), sharp-flowered rush (""Juncus acutiflorus""), oval sedge (""Carex leporina""), common yellow-sedge (""Carex demissa""), carnation sedge (""Carex panicea""), common marsh-bedstraw (""Galium palustre""), marsh pennywort (""Hydrocotyle vulgaris""), ragged-robin (""Lychnis flos-cuculi""), greater birds-foot-trefoil (""Lotus uliginosus""), bog pimpernel (""Anagallis tenella"") and bristle clubrush (""Isolepis setacea""). Lambert's Castle Lambert's Castle is an Iron Age hill fort in the county of Dorset in southwest England. Since 1981 it has been designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) on"
"flava""), tulip tree (""Liriodendron tulipifera""; commonly called ""tulip poplar""), silverbells (""Halesia carolina""), sugar maple (""Acer saccharum""), cucumber magnolia (""Magnolia acuminata""), shagbark hickory (""Carya ovata""), Carolina hemlock (""Tsuga caroliniana"") and eastern hemlock (""Tsuga canadensis""). The American chestnut (""Castanea dentata""), which was arguably the most beloved tree of the range's pre-park inhabitants, was killed off by the introduced Chestnut blight in the 1920s. The understories of the cove hardwood forest contain dozens of species of shrubs and vines. Dominant species in the Smokies include the Eastern redbud (""Cercis canadensis""), flowering dogwood (""Cornus florida""), Catawba rhododendron (""Rhododendron catawbiense""), mountain laurel (""Kalmia latifolia""), and"
"plants include sagebrush, juniper, various species of bunchgrass, mountain mahogany, aspen, mountain meadow knotweed, and false hellebore. Other vegetation endemic to Steens Mountain includes Steens paintbrush (""Castilleja pilosa var. steenensis""), moss gentian (""Gentiana fremontii""), Steens Mountain penstemon (""Penstemon davidsonii var. praeteritus""), Steens Mountain thistle (""Cirsium peckii""), a dwarf blue lupine, and Cusick's buckwheat (""Eriogonum cusickii""). Steens Mountain is home to a variety of wildlife, including bighorn sheep, Rocky Mountain elk, pronghorn, sage grouse, and the Great Basin redband trout. Cattle can be found in the wilderness as well, though they are excluded from grazing on top of Steens Mountain. Coyote"
"hermit crab, grapsids and gecarcinucoidea. There are six species of reptile native to the park, of which five are endemic: the giant gecko (""Cyrtodactylus sadlieri""), the Christmas Island gecko (""Lepidodactylus listeri""), the forest skink (""Emoia nativitatis""), the blue-tailed skink (""Cryptoblephanus egeriae"") and the Christmas Island blind snake (""Ramphotyphlops exocoeti""). The foreshore skink (""Emoia atrocostata"") is native to the park, but is also to be found on other islands of the Indian Ocean. All have been showing decline in recent years. A further five species of reptile have been reported, but all were introduced by human activity: the barking gecko (""Hemidactylus"
"beech. The collection of specimen trees and shrubs includes towering ""Pinus strobus"" (Eastern white pine), American white and English Oaks, lindens, tulip trees, bald cypress, and Chinese golden larch, as well as different species and cultivars of azaleas, lilacs, viburnums, hollies, weeping cherries, mountain laurel, and rhododendrons. The Hunnewell pine, ""Pinus x hunnewellii"", is a hybrid between Eastern white pine and Japanese white pine first raised at the Hunnewell estate in 1952. The H. H. Hunnewell estate is not to be confused with the H. H. Hunnewell Arboretum in the Wellesley College Botanic Gardens at nearby Wellesley College, located across"
"pygmy kingfisher (""Ispidina picta""), half-collared kingfisher (""Alcedo semitorquata""), malachite kingfisher (""Alcedo cristata""), red-billed woodhoopoe (""Phoeniculus purpureus""), crowned hornbill (""Tockus alboterminatus""), trumpeter hornbill (""Bycanistes bucinator""), black-headed oriole (""Oriolus larvatus""), spotted ground-thrush (""Zoothera guttata""), starred robin (""Pogonocichla stellata""), chorister robin (""Cossypha dichroa""), plum-coloured starling (""Cinnyricinclus leucogaster""), forest weaver (""Ploceus bicolor""), thick-billed weaver (""Amblyospiza albifrons""). Eastern green mamba (""Dendroaspis angusticeps""), spotted bush snake (""Philothamnus semivariegatus""), Sundevall's garter snake (""Elapsoidea sundevallii sundevallii""), brown water snake (""Lycodonomorphus rufulus""), Nile monitor (""Varanus niloticus niloticus""), flap-neck chameleon (""Chamaeleo dilepis""), KwaZulu dwarf chameleon (""Bradypodion melanocephalum""). Bush squeaker (""Arthroleptis wahlbergi""), guttural toad (""Bufo gutturalis""), raucous toad (""Bufo rangeri""), greater"
"Wildebeest Wildebeests, also called gnus, are antelopes in the genus Connochaetes. They belong to the family Bovidae, which includes antelopes, cattle, goats, sheep, and other even-toed horned ungulates. ""Connochaetes"" includes two species, both native to Africa: the black wildebeest or white-tailed gnu (""C. gnou""), and the blue wildebeest or brindled gnu (""C. taurinus""). Fossil records suggest these two species diverged about one million years ago, resulting in a northern and a southern species. The blue wildebeest remained in its original range and changed very little from the ancestral species, while the black wildebeest changed more in order to adapt to"