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HOMES 1

Chimpanzee
Although many animals are constantly on the lies back in
its leafy nest
move, others construct homes to provide shelter
from the weather and protection from predators for
themselves and their young. Some homes, such as a
mole’s tunnels, last longer than temporary structures,
such as birds’ nests. On a larger scale, many animals
hold and defend a territory in order to protect access
to food and water.

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1 OVERNIGHT STAY 3 TUNNEL AND TRAPDOOR
After a day’s foraging for food in Trapdoor spiders dig a vertical
the forest, chimpanzees make burrow, closed at the surface by
simple nests up in the trees where a hinged silk lid camouflaged by
they sleep during the night. They twigs and soil. The spider waits in its
A beaver’s
build their nests by folding tunnel home until it feels vibrations
lodge is built
branches to make a platform that produced by passing prey, then from branches,
they line with leafy twigs. The next darts through the trapdoor to sticks, and mud
morning the chimps move on, grab its next meal.
rarely returning to old nests.

2 WATER LODGE 3
Beavers are nature’s engineers.
These water-loving rodents use
their sharp incisor teeth to cut
down trees and branches in order 4
to dam streams and create a pond.
In the pond they build a lodge—a
Trapdoor flies
family home with an underwater
open as spider
entrance. Here beavers feed, breed, emerges from
and bring up their young, secure tunnel home
from predators.

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Water spider
6 breathes the
A mole
eats an air inside its
earthworm bubble
that has
fallen into
its tunnel

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