Homeostasis is maintained through feedback because when one certain parameter of your body goes out of the homeostatic bounds, feedback mechanisms will message this back towards the regulatory mechanisms which are responsible for homeostasis maintenance in the first place. Another thing, other than death, which can happen would be a higher bodily temperature for example.
The Egrets seem to prefer insects because they ate 66 of them, and 66 was the most visited as well.
Abstract. Lung cancer from radon or 239 plutonium exposure has been linked to α-particles that damage DNA through large deletions and point mutations.
(On google)
(Also I like the pic :D)