NOUN | a termite mound | termite mounds | |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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- The nest is sometimes built in a hole in a palm tree or tree fern but usually a pair will excavate a burrow in a termite mound in a tree.
- Both the male and female half-moon conures excavate a cavity in the termite mound using their beaks (the male doing the majority of the digging) over the course of about a week.
- The nest is somewhat vestigial, consisting of twigs and large leaves scraped together on low-lying firm ground, be it on a termite mound a short distance above the forest floor, or the forest floor itself.
- Females will lay between 8 and 20 eggs (roughly 60 × 25 mm in size) in midsummer (December–January), in a hole or an abandoned termite mound or some other warm, wet location.
- Stoltenberg began playing tennis at age ten on an antbed (crushed termite mound) court where his father owned a cotton farm in the Far West (the bush) of New South Wales.
- The termite mound is able to regulate temperature, humidity and respiratory gas distribution.
- African fat-tailed geckos will spend most of their time in a dark, humid hiding place such as a termite mound.
- The terrain is constructed to simulate a hive city on the planet Necromunda, a dystopian futuristic city resembling a termite mound many miles high.
- This species is a resident breeder in a range of dry or moist woodlands and scrub. The two to four rufous-spotted white eggs are laid in a burrow in a bank or termite mound.
- It is believed to live in an anthill or termite mound, hence its name, literally 'Ancestor/Grandparent living in the anthill'.
- By the end of the 19th century, it was a very active port known with the name of Tacurú Pucú, with means "high termite mound".
- An origin myth is recorded from the Wapangwa tribe of Tanzania, wherein the world is created through "a primordial tree and a termite mound".
- An epigeal nest is a term used for a termite mound, the above ground nest of a colony of termites.
- In 1960, Jane Goodall observed a chimpanzee poking pieces of grass into a termite mound and then raising the grass to his mouth.
- The inside of a termite mound proved especially challenging for Attenborough: it was so cramped that he could only face in one direction.
- Their new enclosure boasts a tall artificial termite mound upon which the meerkats like to do 'sentry duty'.
- In lace monitors, the young hatch close to 300 days, and the female returns to help them escape the termite mound where the eggs were laid.
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