Sociable Weaver(群居型 보금자리)
The sociable weaver, native to South Africa, Namibia and Botswana,
weaves huge communal nests that can hosts hundreds of birds across
multiple generations.
These nests, woven from sticks and grass, are permanent. The deeper
inner chambers maintain a higher temperature at night, allowing the
birds to stay warm.
Australian Weaver Ants
Weaver ants, which live in Central Africa and South-East Asia, pull together live leaves and use larval silk to glue them together. These nests can vary in size from a single leave to bunches of glued leaves up to half a meter in length.
Vogelkop Bowerbird
The male Vogelkop bowerbird creates bowers, or small huts, out of grass
and sticks to attract females to mate with. The consummate interior
designers of the animal world, these birds arrange berries, beetles,
flowers and other colorful and eye-catching ornaments into artistic
arrangements to attract their mates. Ironically, the females do not
actually use these bowers to raise their young.
Compass Termite
The compass termite builds large wedge-shaped mounds for nests.
These wedges are roughly oriented in a north-south orientation, which
gives them their name. It is believed that this shape helps their mounds
stay thermoregulated.
Honeybees
Honeybees’ entire lives revolve around their nests. It is in these nests, w
hich they construct out of secreted wax, that they process their food
and raise their young.
European Red Wood Ants
European red wood ants build large mounds on the forest floor to house
their nests. Several of these mounds can be linked as mother-daughter
mounds for the ants to switch between in the event of a catastrophic
event at one o the mounds.
Red Ovenbird
The red ovenbird builds its nest out of clay and mud. These strong
nests help prevent predation and, once abandoned, can provide other
birds with a relatively secure place to live.
Baya Weaver
Baya weavers often build their elegant hanging woven nests in thorny
palm and acacia trees or above bodies of water, where predators may
have difficulty reaching them. The nests can often be found in colonies,
although isolated ones do exist as well.
Wasp
The majority of wasps actually do not actually build nests, preferring
solitary or even parasitic arrangements. Social wasps, on the other
hand, build elegant paper nests out of plant pulp, spit, resin and other
materials.
These consist of internal paper honeycomb tiers (similar to a honey bee’s
comb in appearance but not material) surrounded by a paper wrapping.
Beavers
Beavers build damn to flood woodland areas to a certain depth. They
then build submerged entrances that allow them to avoid predators
and to hunt for food in the winter.
Their dams can be truly massive – the largest known beaver damn, in
Canada’s Wood Buffalo National Park, is roughly 850m, or 2790 ft,
in length. When the water is deep enough, they may sometimes live
in burrows instead.
Montezuma Oropendola
The Montezuma oropendola weaves its nests out of small vines and grass.
They usually live in colonies of roughly 30 birds, which include a dominant
male that mates with the females.
Swallow
Swallows build nests out of various materials, and some don’t even build
any at all, choosing instead to nest in found or abandoned cavities. Certain
species of swallow, however, create their nests primarily out of their own
saliva. These nests are edible, and are considered a delicacy by some.
Caddisfly
When it’s time for the caddisfly to pupate, it spins a tough cocoon out of
pebbles, sand, shells, and other lake- and river-bed detritus. It weaves t
hese elements together with strands of its own silk to safely grow to
adulthood.
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