This termite mound is really big.
The termite mounds around Australia are both plentiful and big when you’re in the scrub. The ones up Cape York are just huge. Some of them were over 5 or 6 meters. There are various kinds, like the magnetic ones that point north-south and the cathedral ones that are red and big. They all work sort of the same way: they’re built from detritus and saliva and poo of termites with the dead at the top, the king and queen at the bottom, and the rest of the business done in the middle. The inhabitants are tiny and blind but highly organized. -jp
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