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of their role in food chains—converting ant and termite biomass into a form usable for top predators like lions, leopards, and pythons—but also because ...

are large and useful for digging into termite mounds and ant hills. However ... chew. Instead, they tear open anthills or termite mounds with their powerful ...

Numbat is the common name for members of the marsupial species Myrmecobius fasciatus, a diurnal, termite-eating mammal characterized by a slender ...

and claws to disrupt the very strong termite nests, add to the wonder ... strong and are used to break open ant and termite mounds in order to feed ...

Echidna, also known as spiny anteater, is any of the egg-laying mammals comprising the Tachyglossidae family of the order Monotremata (monotremes ...

and wood preservatives, protecting wood from termite attack. * Borates may be added to cosmetics and other personal care products to control the ...

Centipede ("hundred legs") is the common name for any member of the arthropod class Chilopoda, comprising species with long, flattened ...

As a general, non-taxonomic term, insectivore is a dietary category that applies to any organism feeding chiefly on insects and similar small ...

been found in the Formosan subterranean termite, possibly as a repellent ... BBC News, [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/76115.stm Termite ...

Cockroach is the common name for any insect in the order (or suborder) Blattodea (= Blattaria) in the superorder (or order) Dictyoptera, characterized ...

A termite-bored didgeridoo has an irregular shape that, overall, usually increases in diameter towards the lower end. This shape means that its ...

includes ants, bees, and some species of wasp and termite) use pheromones to coordinate the activities of the colony. Honeybees, for example, have one ...

and hundreds of rooms. It suffered from termite and cyclone damage, but still offered an impressive scene. Many bullet holes left over from the ...

It is now thought that they are created by a termite. ==Climate== [[Image:ConceptionBay Namibia ISS011-E-9756.jpg|thumb|250px|The dune sea of ...

created features in the Park are the termite mounds. The mounds in the ... [[Image:Termite cathedral mounds in a bushfire blackened tropical ...

Category:Public color = lightblue | name = Fungi image = [[Image:Fungus on log.jpg|200px|Orange saprotrophic fungus]]| caption = Orange saprotrophic ...

Galliformes is an order of chicken-like birds, characterized by stocky built, small head, strong feet, and often short bills and wings, and adult ...

Feliformia is one of two suborders within the order Carnivora and consists of the "cat-like" carnivores, such as the felids (true cats ...

Mantodea is an order (or suborder) of large, terrestrial, carnivorous insects characterized by raptorial forelegs (adapted to capturing prey ...

enlarged third digit for tearing down ant hills and termite nests. * In the whale, the forelimbs become flippers for steering and maintaining ...

Parasitism is a type of symbiosis that may be defined as an interspecific association in which one species, the parasite, lives on or in a second ...

Ants are insects of the family Formicidae. They, along with the related families of wasps and bees, belong to the order Hymenoptera. ...

La Vie des Termites (The Life of the Termite), plagiarizing The Soul of the White Ant, researched and written by the South African poet and scientist ...

Poison dart frog (also poison arrow frog, dart frog, or poison frog) is the common name for any of the very small, diurnal frogs of the Dendrobatidae ...

The greenhouse effect is the process in which long wave radiation (infrared) emitted by the earth surface is absorbed by atmospheric gases only ...

Caecobunus termitarum (Grassatores) from termite nests, Giupponia chagasi (Gonyleptidae) from caves, and all species of Guasiniidae) (Pinto-da ...

range of the head-banging alarms produced by their termite prey (Narins et al. 1997). Grant's golden mole (Eremitalpa granti) can cover 6 km each ...

A wing is a natural or artificial surface used to produce lift and therefore flight, for travel in the air or another gaseous medium. The first ...

the sill-plate from rotting as well as providing a termite barrier. The floors, walls and roof of a framed structure are created by assembling ...

Natural gas in the broad sense is a gaseous material consisting primarily of methane and deriving from one of three main types of sources: deeply ...

|image_caption = Peach-fronted parakeets (Aratinga aurea)on a termite ... or cavities dug into cliffs, banks, termite nests, or the ground. The ...

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effects animators in history are A.C. Gamer from Termite Terrace/Warner Bros.; and Joshua Meador, Cy Young, Mark Dindal, and Randy Fullmer from the Walt ...

some of the tools used include leaf sponges, termite fishing probes, pestles and levers.W.C. McGrew, Chimpanzee Material Culture (Cambridge, UK; New ...

objects that stand out, such as trees, logs, or termite mounds. The whole coalition contributes to the scent. Males will attempt to kill any intruders ...

Climate Change, in its broadest sense, is any change in the state of the climate or climate system that persists for an extended time period ...