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HOMES AND HIDEAWAYS 139

WONDER WEB

The largest spider web ever recorded was woven by Burrows provide protection
from enemies and extreme
a Darwin’s bark spider and measured 25 m (82 ft) temperatures. Many animals dig
across – the length of three African bush elephants. homes in the ground, but some
species dig deeper than others.

• Cicada
(2.5 m/8 ft)
A cicada nymph digs
and lives in a burrow
until it emerges
as an adult.

• Red fox
(3 m/10 ft)
CAPTIVE A red fox digs a hole
in winter for spring,
SURVIVAL when cubs are born

Around two-thirds of species of in the burrow.
Pacific Partula snails were wiped
out by an introduced carnivorous snail.
Some were bred in captivity – and
in 2019, two were returned to their
DIGGING DEEP
island homeland. • Yellow-spotted

monitor lizard
POPULAR PETS (3.6 m/12 ft)
This Australian
reptile digs a
HOMES Dogs 33% Cats 23% corkscrew-shaped

tunnel to a nest
chamber.

• European badger
(4 m/13 ft]
Setts are burrows
Fish 12% Birds 6% Other 6%
dug with a badger’s
long claws and
wide feet.

A 2016 global survey showed that more people own dogs
than any other pet. Of the 22 countries surveyed, people in
Argentina had the highest percentage of pet ownership, at 82%.
UNDERGROUND

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