Dung middens, also known as dung hills, are piles of dung that mammals periodically return to and build up. They are used as a form of territorial marker...
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midden, a debris pile constructed by a woodrat Privy midden, a toilet system that consisted of a privy associated with a midden (or middenstead) Dung...
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Pack rat (redirect from Packrat midden)
than 5%) live beyond 3 years of age. A pack rat midden is a debris pile constructed by a woodrat. A midden may preserve the materials incorporated into it...
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A rock hyrax midden is a stratified accumulation of fecal pellets and a brown amber-like a urinary product known as hyraceum excreted by the rock hyrax...
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territory with urine and probably with dung, which is not covered with soil. Claw scratching is prominent, and dung middens are typically not formed. In Israel...
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(Procavia capensis Pallas). These Hyraxes have communal toilets or dung middens. These middens are probably a stable and dependable food source for Versicorpus...
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(Procavia capensis). These hyraxes have communal toilets or dung middens. These middens are a stable and dependable food source for Dicranocara in a...
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are solitary, and mark their territories using anal scent glands and dung middens. The home ranges used by wild brown-throated three-toed sloths in Costa...
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to threats, alarms, and courtship. Males mark their territory using dung middens (piles). In the wild, mountain gazelle rarely survive past the age of...
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season, adult males tend to be territorial, and mark their range with dung middens. In most parts of their range, mating takes place from September to November...
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the species is usually encountered singly. Territory is marked with dung middens. Their habitat is rocky hill country, but preferring fertile zones on...
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where their mate is most of the time. Scent marking is primarily through dung middens. Territories range from 4 hectares to 1 square kilometre. The male is...
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feature of the social behaviour of oribi is the "dung ceremony", in which all animals form temporary dung middens. Oribi at least three months old have been...
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Coprinus sterquilinus (redirect from Midden ink cap)
Coprinus sterquilinus, the midden ink cap, is a species of fungus in the family Agaricaceae. It grows on animal dung and occurs in Europe, Asia and America...
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heuweltjies as dung middens; they are often colonised by Brant's whistling rats (Parotomys brantsii); and sheep graze and leave dung on them. Fairy circle...
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dunghill, created by many mammals, such as moles or hyraxes, is also called a midden. Animals with communal latrines include raccoons, Eurasian badgers, elephants...
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Pail closet (section Middens)
Middenstead: The place where a dunghill is formed; a dunghill, a midden. Midden: 1. a. A dunghill, a dung heap; a refuse heap. Also: a domestic ash-pit. Hassan 1998...
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Zhizo Hill, York Ranch, Leopard's Kopje, Taba Zikamambo, Woolandale Estate Midden Mounds, and Enyandeni Farm. Other notable associated sites include Mapela...
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large-scale Mesolithic nut processing, some 8,000 years old, was found in a midden pit on the island of Colonsay in Scotland. The evidence consists of a large...
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sunk in the ground, into mounds of prehistoric domestic waste known as middens. This provided the houses with stability and also acted as insulation against...
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centimeters deep in soil rich in organic matter such as compost, dung, animal burrows, packrat middens, and ant nests. In at least some species, the pupa develops...
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finding middens outside the ruins, with sewage and food waste, as well as significant amounts of ash from burning wood, reeds, and animal dung. In good...
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District contains the intact Plum Orchard mansion dating to the 1890s, a shell midden dating back over 4,000 years, and the mansion's support structures including...
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Domestication of the horse (section Dung and corrals)
Kazakhstan found layers of horse dung, discarded in unused house pits in both settlements. The collection and disposal of horse dung suggests that horses were...
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in marking their domain. This involves creating well-defined dung piles, known as middens; a bull might maintain 20 to 30 such piles to signal his presence...
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by fr:Étienne Patte, and is a Neolithic cemetery distinguished by shell middens. The site has recently been carbon-dated to 5000 BC. The people at the...
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hdl:10044/1/26321. PMID 24814169. Schaefer, Charles E.; Culina, Veronika; Nguyen, Dung; Field, Jennifer (5 November 2019). "Uptake of Poly- and Perfluoroalkyl Substances...
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(430 ft) below present or possibly lower. The appearance of marine shells in middens in other caves on Lipuun Point from c. 7000 BP, and especially in later...
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from the Neolithic Nagsabaran site (part of the Lal-lo and Gattaran Shell Middens, c. 2200 BCE to 400 CE). These became the ancestors of the distinctly swamp-type...
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