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Animal Architects

Diggers, weavers, carpenters, bricklayers, and nomads—it's all in a day's work for the animal architects. Here you can see inside their structures and learn all their engineering secrets. Why do termites make different shaped mounds? How did the oven bird get its name? And why are honeycombs shaped that way?

