The Iron Nun
Marie Dorothy Buder was born in St. Louis, Missouri on July 24, 1930.
Madonna Buder is a Roman Catholic religious sister and Senior Olympian triathlete.She has the current world record for the oldest woman to ever finish an Ironman Triathlon.
She was educated at Visitation Academy of St. Louis.
She attended Washington University in St. Louis and was a member of the Alpha Iota chapter of Kappa Alpha Theta.She entered a convent of the Congregation of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd at age 23.
She left the congregation in 1970 to join other Sisters from different and varying backgrounds to establish a new and non-traditional community of Religious Sisters.
She set that record at age 82 by finishing the Subaru Ironman Canada on August 26, 2012.
She also a senior Olympian and holds several records in various distances.
She completed her first triathlon at age 52.
She completed her first Ironman event at age 55 and has continued ever since.
She has completed over 325 triathlons.
45 of them were Ironman Distances.
At the 2005 Hawaii Ironman, at age 75, she became the oldest woman ever to complete the race.
At the 2006 Hawaii Ironman, at age 76, she again became the oldest woman ever to complete the race.
She has completed over 325 triathlons.
45 of them were Ironman Distances.
At the 2005 Hawaii Ironman, at age 75, she became the oldest woman ever to complete the race.
At the 2006 Hawaii Ironman, at age 76, she again became the oldest woman ever to complete the race.
She has worked hard at raising money for various charities.
August 24, 2008, she participated in the Ironman Canda.
August 24, 2008, she participated in the Ironman Canda.
She was unable to finish the race by a factor of seconds.
On August 30, 2009, This time she completed Ironman Canada. She broke her own record of being the oldest female to complete the Ironman distance at 79 years old.
The Ironman organization has had to add new age brackets as the sister gets older.
She started the 2010 Ironman Canada competition at the age of 80, she was unable to complete the course, due to a wetsuit issue.
She competed in the 2011 Ironman Canada competition but missed the bike cut-off by 2 minutes.
She competed and finished the Ironman Canada triathlon again in 2012 as she wanted to open up an 80+ age category and be the oldest person, male or female, to finish an Ironman triathlon.
She competed and finished the Ironman Canada triathlon again in 2012 as she wanted to open up an 80+ age category and be the oldest person, male or female, to finish an Ironman triathlon.
She became the overall Ironman world record holder in age at age 82.
She beat the record previously held by 81-year-old Lew Hollander.
In 2014, she was inducted into the USA Triathlon Hall of Fame.
In 2016, she was featured in an ad for Nike, Inc that was aired during the Summer Olympic Games.
In 2016, she was featured in an ad for Nike, Inc that was aired during the Summer Olympic Games.
The Hooded Pitohui
It is a medium-sized songbird with rich chestnut and black plumage.
Its feathers contain one of the most potent toxins known to science.
It was the first poisonous bird discovered.
The Hooded pitohui have a strong poison in their skin and feathers.
The hooded pitohui is found in forests from sea-level up to 6,600 ft, It is most common in hills and low mountains.
The Hooded pitohui have a strong poison in their skin and feathers.
It is a species of bird found in New Guinea.
The toxins are thought to be derived from their diet.
The toxins may function both to deter predators and protect the bird from parasites.
This species is one the most poisonous species of pitohui.
The hooded pitohui is found in forests from sea-level up to 6,600 ft, It is most common in hills and low mountains.
It is a social bird that lives in family groups and frequently joins and even leads mixed-species foraging flocks.
The diet is made up of fruits, seeds and invertebrates.
Family groups help to protect the nest and feed the young.
The hooded pitohui is common and not at risk of extinction.
The hooded pitohui is 8.7–9.1 in long.
The hooded pitohui is 8.7–9.1 in long.
It weighs 2.3–2.7 oz.
The adult has a black upperwing, head, chin, throat and upper breast and a black tail.
The rest of the plumage is a chestnut color.
The bill and legs are black.
The irises are either reddish brown, dark brown or black.
Brown tree snakes are bird predators that have been shown to be vulnerable to the poisons found in hooded pitohui.
The hooded pitohui makes a variety of calls, mostly forms of whistles.
Brown tree snakes are bird predators that have been shown to be vulnerable to the poisons found in hooded pitohui.
The hooded pitohui makes a variety of calls, mostly forms of whistles.
There eggs are creamy or pinkish with brown to black spots and blotches and faint grey patches.
Also legionary ant or marabunta.
Army Ants
The name is due to their aggressive predatory foraging groups, known as "raids".
Huge numbers of ants forage simultaneously over a certain area.
Army ants do not construct permanent nests.
Army ants do not construct permanent nests.
An army ant colony are constantly on the move.
The ants do the same thing, they act the same.
This is called"legionary behavior".
The workers of army ants are usually blind or have stuff in their eyes so they can't really see.
The soldiers of army ants are larger than the workers, and they have much larger mandibles.
They protect the colony, and do the heavy lifting.
The males have wings and can resemble wasps.
As soon as they are born, they will fly off in search of a queen to mate with.
Sometimes males seek to mate with a queen from an existing colony.
Males are sometimes called "sausage flies" or "sausage ants."
Colonies of army ants always have only one queen.
The queen is blind and does not have wings.
They are larger than worker army ants.
Queens will mate with multiple males.
They can produce 3 to 4 million eggs a month. Army ants are to the most ferocious social hunters.
They are the largest ants on Earth.
When the queen ant dies, most of the time, the colony will most likely die too.
The new queens that are hatched be sorted and picked through until two queens are selected.
The two that are not selected will be abandoned to die.
The colony of army ants can consume up to 500,000 animals each day.
Underground species prey primarily on ground-dwelling arthropods and their larvae, earthworms, and occasionally also the young of vertebrates, turtle eggs, or oily seeds.
The "colony robbers", specialize in the offspring of other ants and wasps.
Some army ants attack birds and their eggs.
Colonies can have over 15 million workers.
They build a living nest with their bodies.
The members hold onto each other's legs and so build a sort of ball.
Alabama was the last state in the U.S. to lift the ban on interracial marriage.
The ban wasn't lifted until 2000.
That is 30 years after the Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional.
This is called"legionary behavior".
The workers of army ants are usually blind or have stuff in their eyes so they can't really see.
The soldiers of army ants are larger than the workers, and they have much larger mandibles.
They protect the colony, and do the heavy lifting.
The males have wings and can resemble wasps.
As soon as they are born, they will fly off in search of a queen to mate with.
Sometimes males seek to mate with a queen from an existing colony.
Males are sometimes called "sausage flies" or "sausage ants."
Colonies of army ants always have only one queen.
The queen is blind and does not have wings.
They are larger than worker army ants.
Queens will mate with multiple males.
They can produce 3 to 4 million eggs a month. Army ants are to the most ferocious social hunters.
They are the largest ants on Earth.
When the queen ant dies, most of the time, the colony will most likely die too.
The new queens that are hatched be sorted and picked through until two queens are selected.
The two that are not selected will be abandoned to die.
The colony of army ants can consume up to 500,000 animals each day.
Underground species prey primarily on ground-dwelling arthropods and their larvae, earthworms, and occasionally also the young of vertebrates, turtle eggs, or oily seeds.
The "colony robbers", specialize in the offspring of other ants and wasps.
Some army ants attack birds and their eggs.
Colonies can have over 15 million workers.
They build a living nest with their bodies.
The members hold onto each other's legs and so build a sort of ball.
These ants are the same ones that are in the Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull movie.
They are just smaller, no ant is that big.
Jeez Alabama...
The ban wasn't lifted until 2000.
That is 30 years after the Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional.
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