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    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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    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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    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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    Feces (redirect from Dung hill)
    kestrels, who can see the near ultraviolet and thus find their prey by their middens and territorial markers. Seeds also may be found in feces. Animals who...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • (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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    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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    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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  • many mammals, such as [mole (animal)|mole]]s or hyraxes, is also called a midden. Some lizards, such as yakka skinks (Egernia rugosa) and thorny devils use...
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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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    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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    unearthed seed grains from a midden suggesting that barley was cultivated. Fish bones and shells are common in the midden indicating that dwellers ate...
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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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    includes kitchen waste (spoiled food, trimmings, inedible parts), ash, soil, dung and other plant matter. In waste management, it also includes some inorganic...
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    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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  • 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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    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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    some locations required sand, chopped straw or other binders such as animal dung to be mixed in with the mud to increase durability and plasticity. Workers...
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    its roof caved in, and the organic material was preserved thanks to sheep dung, which prevented fungi from destroying the remains. The team's full findings...
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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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    to dumps on the banks of the River Thames such as the appropriately named Dung Wharf—later the site of the Mermaid Theatre—from which it was transported...
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  • mats" have been interpreted as equivalent to the layers of trampled elephant dung found around water holes in Africa. Elephant steroids have been identified...
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    species was found in a Paleo-Indian to Early Archaic (9000–8000 years BCE) midden at Five Mile Rapids near The Dalles, Oregon. Fossil (or subfossil) black...
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