
This looks like a graveyard full of headstones doesn't it. Well, its not. Each headstonelike monument is really the home of a group of magnetic termites. You might be wondering why they are called magnetic and I'm going to tell you my children. These termites like climate control and achieve a nice balance between hot and cold by situating their hills in a north to south position so as to create a home that picks up the heat during the day and slowly releases it at night. They also have to deal with living on a floodplane so they get covered with water during the rainy season. If you get up close it looks like a mud sculpture, but you never see the little creatures that live inside it.
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