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They hide in burrows in the ground during the day, and those that live in open ground ( e. g., H. focalis ) conceal their exit holes with a specially made perforated door.
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They are sometimes preserved within the voids of other organisms, for instance within empty hyolith conchs, within sponges, worm tubes and under the carapaces of bivalved arthropods, presumably in order to hide from predators or strong storm currents ; or maybe whilst scavenging for food.
They have a thick brown hide, curved claws at knees and elbows, and retractable claws on the knuckles of their hands.
They aggressively attack anything that invades their territory by tackling it, but will hide in puddles on the ground if no one is close.
They do not hide the fact that communication takes place, and as such do not attempt to present the cluster as a single parallel machine.
They have additional advantages for this purpose — they are more difficult to filter since each spoofed packet appears to come from a different address, and they hide the true source of the attack.
They were made of wood and leather, and were of such a large size that a warrior could hide completely behind his shield.
They would also pay their models in cash in which models would have to hide their money from custom agents.
They are also known to hide their calves in safe places to avoid predation, sometimes causing difficulty for ranchers, who may need to work on the animal.
They converse with each other in heavily formal French and German, and in moments of intimate personal conversation, escape into English as if to hide these comments from their lower class counterparts.
They hide in a cave which Brent soon discovers is the ruins of the Queensboro Plaza station of the New York City Subway, making him realize that he has travelled through time to Earth's post-apocalyptic future.
They were received warmly by the President of the mission, José Bernardo Sánchez, who managed to hide any misgivings he might have had.
They flee the gunfight on foot and hide in a nunnery, dressing up as Nuns and introducing themselves to the Sister Superior, Liz ( Janet Suzman ) as Sisters Euphemia ( Brian ) and Inviolata ( Charlie ).
They fake Bowden's departure and hide in the house, hoping that Cady will break in so that he can be shot in self-defense.
They also have small enclosed rooms called, where defenders could hide themselves and kill attackers by surprise as they entered the keep.
They and burrows
They usually use existing burrows of aardvarks, porcupines or springhares, despite being capable of creating their own.
They mostly cache their foods in a larder in their burrows and remain in their nests until spring, unlike some other species, which make multiple small caches of food.
They only pupate and then emerge from their burrows after 13 or 17 years, at which point they fly about, breed, and then die after a few weeks at most.
They were removed from their underground burrows each spring, as young pups, with a large vacuum device.
They generally live in burrows and are deposit feeders, but some species are pharyngeal filter feeders.
They breed in large colonies on coastal cliffs or offshore islands, nesting in crevices among rocks or in burrows in the soil.
They form colonies by nesting in burrows tunnelled into the side of sandy banks, such as those that have collapsed on the edges of rivers.
They seem to be fond of eating a native endangered plant, Cordia globosa and feeding on Nickernut ( Caesalpinia ) a primary food plant of the endangered Miami Blue Butterfly ( Cyclargus thomasi bethunebakeri ); additionally on Marco Island, Green Iguanas have been observed using the burrows of the Florida Burrowing Owl, a species of special concern, all of which can make them more of a serious threat to Florida's ecosystem than originally believed.
They nest in deep burrows and use a highly developed sense of smell to find small insects and grubs in the soil.
They prefer to retreat to their burrows when threatened ; if the burrow is invaded, the groundhog tenaciously defends itself with its two large incisors and front claws.
They favor the loose soil of the esker upon which the site lies, and their many diggings for their burrows have brought to the surface significant numbers of human and animal bones, pottery, and bits of stone.
They have even been found to nest in rabbit burrows, ruins with cavities large enough to host nesting and old poplar hedges which have numerous cavities for nesting, and in cracks in crag or cliff faces, in ivy, or in the thick growth round the boles of common lime ( linden ) trees.
They are colonial nesters, excavating burrows on grassy cliffs – they will also nest amongst rocks and scree.
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