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The zebra finch primarily eats grass seeds, [13] feeding mostly on semi-ripe and ripe seeds (although it also takes dry seeds [15]). The seeds are all dehusked, [ 63 ] and are found on stems and the ground, with most being taken, at least in the nominate subspecies, from the latter. [ 9 ]
In China, an administrative village (Chinese: 村; pinyin: cūn) is a type fifth-level administrative division, underneath a township, county, city, and province. There are more than six hundred thousand administrative villages in China. [1] Some villages are not administrative villages but natural villages, which are not administrative divisions.
The cat (Felis catus), also referred to as the domestic cat, is a small domesticated carnivorous mammal. It is the only domesticated species of the family Felidae.Advances in archaeology and genetics have shown that the domestication of the cat occurred in the Near East around 7500 BC.
A village may be coterminous with, and have a consolidated government with, a town. A village is a clearly defined municipality that provides the services closest to the residents, such as garbage collection, street and highway maintenance, street lighting and building codes. Some villages provide their own police and other optional services.
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A village is a type of incorporated urban municipality in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. [1] A village is created from an organized hamlet by the Minister of Municipal Affairs by ministerial order via section 51 of The Municipalities Act if the community has: been an organized hamlet for three or more years; a population of 100 or more;
Sesame seed is a common ingredient in many cuisines. Sesame seed cookies called Benne wafers, both sweet and savory, are popular in places such as Charleston, South Carolina. [62] Sesame seeds, also called benne, were brought into 17th-century colonial America by enslaved West Africans. [63] The whole plant was used in West African cuisine.
At the 2001 census 72.2% of the population [55] lived in about 638,000 villages [56] and the remaining 27.8% [55] lived in more than 5,100 towns and over 380 urban agglomerations. [ 57 ] India's population exceeded that of the entire continent of Africa by 200 million people in 2010. [ 58 ]