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#AnimalArchitecture #spiders #silk neat conversation with expert Cheryl Hayashi: www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/sci...

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Texas's state animals, armadillos, are making North Carolina their home Armadillos are making North Carolina their home. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with wildlife biologist Colleen Olfenbuttel about how Texas' state mammal has gotten a foothold in the Tar Heel State.

#AnimalArchitecture #ecosystem #EngineeringJobs www.npr.org/2026/03/15/n...

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Anti‐Predation and Size‐Dependent Gas Exchange Functions of Amazonian Architect Cicada Towers Clay towers built by cicada nymphs before metamorphosis are poorly understood. We experimentally show that towers of the Amazonian cicada Guyalna chlorogena reduce predation risk and exhibit size-dep...

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Glenn Wiggins' love of #AnimalArchitecture #insects
Finally, I have a copy of this book on my shelf.

Nest weave pattern in weaverbirds: a sexual signal selected through sensory drive? Abstract. Nests are primarily shaped by natural selection, but are also subject to sexual selection. Here, we investigated the potential role of sexual sel

doi.org/10.1093/evol...
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#SexualSelection #AnimalArchitecture #Weaverbirds #BehaviouralEcology #EvolutionaryBiology #SensoryEcology

I study rat nests − here’s why rodents make great archivists An archaeologist reveals what she learned from sifting through a 200-year-old rat nest recovered from a historic Philadelphia home.

#AnimalArchitecture theconversation.com/i-study-rat-...

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Paleontologists Discover First-Known Instance of Ancient Bees Nesting inside Vertebrate Fossils | Sci.News Bees are well known for their species and remarkable behavioral diversity, ranging from solitary species that nest in burrows to social species that construct highly compartmentalized nests.

#fossil #insects #bees #AnimalArchitecture
www.sci.news/paleontology...

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Duarte-De-Mélo, Chaboo, Cajé, Suênia-Bastos & De Moura Lima. 2025. #Brazil #Chlamisus #leafbeetles on #Malvaceae #AnimalArchitecture #Chrysomelidae #Beetles Fragmenta entomologica 57(2).

There’s a Wasp Nest in the Living Room. On Purpose.

#AnimalArchitecture #wasps
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/r...

Some ant architects design a colony to cut the risk of disease. Humans, take note! One kind of tiny ant can serve as a monumental example for how to keep members of a community safe from pathogens. A new study shows how they do it.

#AnimalArchitecture for immunity
www.npr.org/sections/goa...

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These hermit crabs are using trash as homes. He’s fixing that | CNN One night while documenting wildlife, photographer Shawn Miller discovered hermit crabs living in trash. Now, he’s on a mission to swap their plastic homes for proper shells with his conservation proj...

#hermitcrab #AnimalArchitecture recycling thrash as homes
(1 min advert before film on the crabs)
www.cnn.com/2025/09/30/c...

"Savannah Tower At Golden Hour"

QP Giraffe Art

#AIArt #SynthArt #qp #architecture #AnimalArchitecture

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#beetles #larvae #leafbeetles #Chrsomelidae #AnimalArchitecture

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#AnimalArchitecture found materials

#AnimalArchitecture and subsociality!

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Opinion | Finding Beauty in Spiders It was within the orange tree in our front yard that the first spider appeared, sparking my poet’s imagination.

Beautiful story #AnimalArchitecture #Caribbean
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

#AnimalArchitecture with scenic view

re: #animalarchitecture #nonhumannature et al.

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