Termite mounds, for example, maintain a constant internal temperature through the design of air-conditioning chimneys.

Termite cathedral mounds in an area blackened by the park's annual winter bushfire s.

Termite mounds

Termite mounds are scattered across the park, particularly on the Niland Plain.

Termite mounds usually out live the colonies themselves.

* Termite mounds are usually oriented in a north-south direction so that they absorb as much heat as possible around dawn and dusk and minimise heat absorption around noon.

With the animators working in the Termite Terrace studio, they debuted the first truly major Looney Tunes star, Porky Pig, who was introduced in 1935 along with Beans the Cat in the Merrie Melodie cartoon I Haven't Got a Hat directed by Friz Freleng.

After leaving the remnants of Termite Terrace behind for good, Friz Freleng and his new partner David H. DePatie went on to produce the Pink Panther cartoons during the 1960s and 1970s, with the cartoons appearing almost simultaneously on television and in theaters through a distribution deal with United Artists.

In the opening to the some episodes of the series, a faux newsreel, Newsreel of the Stars, is played with an abridged history of the Yakko, Wakko, and Dot Warner ; in 1929, they were created by the Termite Terrace Animation Department and starred in several cartoons until their zaniness caused a falling out with the studio.

* Cruncher-the tiny Termite with the B-I-G appetite!

Termite queen with soldiers '

This was followed by Brother Termite, Conscience of the Beagle, The Happy Policeman, Cradle of Splendor, and God's Fires, each of which combined science fiction plots with other genres in unconventional ways.

The RAAF were particularly successful, and in one such mission known as Operation Termite, five Lincoln bombers destroyed 181 communist camps, killed 13 communists and forced one into surrender, in a joint operation with the RAF and ground troops.

However, because much of Pierce's Termite Terrace career was spent with McKimson's unit ( McKimson considered the least-known Warners animation director ), it would follow that Pierce was generally overshadowed by his contemporaries as story writers at Warners, Warren Foster and Maltese.

* Termite Blues with Alberto Ponticelli, in Creature Features # 2, 2008, ( Th3rd Eye Studios )

* Formosan Termite Fact Sheet from the National Pest Management Association with information on habits, habitat and prevention

The senior director at Warners ' Termite Terrace studio, Freleng directed more cartoons than any other director in the studio ( a total of 266 ), and is also the most honored of the Warner directors, having won four Academy Awards.

They christened the building " Termite Terrace ", a name eventually used by fans and historians to describe the entire studio.

* Termite Queen-The ruler of a mutant termite colony found to be consuming the Amazon Rainforest.

In his later years, Jones became the most vocal alumnus of the Termite Terrace studio, frequently giving lectures, seminars, and working to educate newcomers in the animation field.

Jones, the second to last surviving animation director from the " Termite Terrace " days of the WB cartoons, died of heart failure in 2002.

Michael Barrier claims that Clampett had given himself too much credit, but also that Jones had had ill feelings towards him ever since their days at Termite Terrace, due to the fact that Bob Clampett was made an animation director before Chuck Jones.

Schlesinger put Avery in charge of the low-budget Looney Tunes in a low run-down old building the animators named Termite Terrice.

Also at Termite Terrice animator Bob Clampett redesigned Porky from a fat, chubby pig to a more cute and childlike character.

After Daffy Duck was created, he would add even more success to Warner Bros cartoons and replaced Porky Pig as the studio's most popular animated character, and Bob Clampett took over Termite Terrice, while Tex Avery took over the Merry Melodies department.

Warner Bros shut down the Original Termite Terrace studio in 1963 and DePatie-Freleng Enterprises assumed production of the shorts, licensed by Warner Bros. After DePatie-Freleng ceased production of Looney Tunes in 1967, Bill Hendricks was put in charge of production of the newly-renamed Warner Bros .- Seven Arts animation studio, and hired veterans such as Alex Lovy and LaVerne Harding from the Walter Lantz studio, Volus Jones and Ed Solomon from Disney, Jaime Diaz who later worked on The Fairly OddParents as director, and David Hanan, who previously worked on Roger Ramjet.

Warner Bros. shut down its animation studio completely in 1963, and the directors of Termite Terrace went their separate ways.

The new characters introduced during the Seven Arts period, such as Cool Cat, Bunny and Claude, Quick Brown Fox and Rapid Rabbit, and Merlin the Magic Mouse, never caught on, while the Termite Terrace cartoons remained perennial television favorites through syndication and Saturday morning airings throughout the remainder of the 20th century.

Animation, to produce Tiny Toon Adventures, an animated series that paid homage to the Warner Bros. cartoons of Termite Terrace.

His animators worked in a dilapidated studio ( Avery's unit were briefly assigned to a bungalow they dubbed " Termite Terrace "), and Schlesinger briefly shut down the studio in mid-1941 when unionized employees demanded a pay raise.

Clampett, whose collection of drawings, films, and memorabilia from the golden days of Termite Terrace was legendary, provided nearly all of the behind-the-scenes drawings and home-movie footage for the film.

Haradaway's nickname around Termite Terrace ( the ramshackle building where the Looney Tunes were originally produced ) was " Bugs ," and the bunny prototype's first model sheet was labeled " Bugs ' Bunny "-- the apostrophe was later dropped.

Crannogs have been variously interpreted as free-standing wooden structures, as at Loch Tay, although more commonly they exist as brush, stone or timber mounds which can be revetted with timber piles.

Many believe that it was here, in the fertile valleys of Strathtay and Strathmore, that the four-posters became refined into neat squares, averaging 12 square metres in internal area, placed on neat levelled mounds with cists or cremations near the north east stone.

Many of the several hundred temple mounds have been built over with freeways, shopping centers, commerce, luxury hotels and residential areas.

The female lays her eggs in burrows cut into the side of a hill or in the abandoned nesting mounds of the Orange-footed Scrubfowl ( a moundbuilder or megapode ), with a preference for the abandoned mounds.

Lundy has evidence of visitation or occupation from the Neolithic period onward, with Mesolithic flintwork, Bronze Age burial mounds, four inscribed gravestones from the early medieval period, and an early medieval monastery ( possibly dedicated to St Elen or St Helen ).

The park is a large open space with rectangular mounds and voids on the ground .< sup > photo </ sup > At first the park was criticized for being relatively uninviting ( with punched card pits promoting mosquito infestation and preventing safe active recreation ) and lacked trees or structures to shade students from the sun.

The island has evidence from every stage in the history of Orkney, with a Neolithic settlement at Rinyo, Bronze Age burnt mounds, Iron Age crannogs and brochs ( the highest density anywhere in Scotland: three within of coastline ), Viking boat burials, remains of a medieval church and the stately home at Trumland.

* On the coast and in river estuaries of the Senegal, Saloum, Gambia, and Casamance rivers, burial mounds with clusters of shells often referred to as middens.

They are said to live underground in fairy mounds, across the western sea, or in an invisible world that coexists with the world of humans.

There is evidence of early habitation with several burial mounds and stones.

Recently discovered funeral mounds in Bulgaria suggest that Thracian kings did rule regions of Thrace with distinct Thracian national identity.

They have short legs, with sharp claws which they use for burrowing into termite and ant mounds, as well as climbing.

Instead, they tear open anthills or termite mounds with their powerful front claws and probe deep into them with their very long tongues.

After being defeated in a series of battles with other otherworldly beings, and then by the ancestors of the current Irish people, they were said to have withdrawn to the sídhe ( fairy mounds ), where they lived on in popular imagination as " fairies.

The Nordic Bronze Age period in Denmark featured a culture which buried its dead, with their worldly goods, beneath burial mounds.

Large burial mounds ( some over 20 metres high ), provide the most valuable archaeological remains associated with the Scythians.

The burial mounds concealed chambers of larch-logs covered over with large cairns of boulders and stones.

In 2000, the touring exhibition ' Scythian Gold ' introduced the North American public to the objects made for Scythian nomads by Greek craftsmen north of the Black Sea, and buried with their Scythian owners under burial mounds on the flat plains of present-day Ukraine, most of them unearthed after 1980.

In 1805, the Lower Creeks ceded their lands east of the Ocmulgee to Georgia, with the exception of the sacred burial mounds of the Ocmulgee Old Fields.

Towards the north-west, the country is very marshy and nothing is to be seen for miles but tracts of unreclaimed swamps and rice fields, with a few huts scattered here and there raised on mounds of earth.

In 1956 Gimbutas introduced her Kurgan hypothesis, which combined archaeological study of the distinctive Kurgan burial mounds with linguistics to unravel some problems in the study of the Proto-Indo-European ( PIE ) speaking peoples, whom she dubbed the " Kurgans "; namely, to account for their origin and to trace their migrations into Europe.