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underground architecture built by animals who never took a single design class
means To dig a tunnel or hole in the ground, or the actual hole or tunnel an animal digs to live in.
from From Old English 'burgh' / 'beorg' meaning a fortified place or shelter — the same family that gave us 'borough' and the '-bury' in town names like Canterbury. The thread running through all of them is the idea of a protected, enclosed refuge; a rabbit's burrow and a walled town turn out to be linguistic cousins, both places you retreat to for safety.
- prairie dog towns
- one stretched across 65,000 square miles
- climate control
- shaped to suck fresh air through automatically
- escape exits
- rabbits dig backdoors called bolt-holes
- ancient real estate
- some tortoise burrows host 350 other species
- depth flex
- Nile crocodiles tunnel up to 12 meters
badger sett burrow — badgers dig complex underground tunnel systems with multiple entrances, some used for generations and reaching 30+ feet deep
rabbit warren — european rabbits create interconnected burrow networks called warrens with dozens of exits across a single acre
prairie dog town — black-tailed prairie dogs in texas and the great plains build burrow colonies covering thousands of acres with thousands of individuals