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unusual facts about burrow



Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, Gibraltar

The church was consecrated in 1838 by Archdeacon Edward Burrow in the presence of the Dowager Queen Adelaide, widow of William IV.

Cheyenne Tozzi

In an interview with a surf magazine, Burrow claimed he had initiated the break-up when a picture of Tozzi in romanticly suggestive poses with American oil-heir Brandon Davis (grandson of Marvin Davis) appeared on the internet while Tozzi was on assignment in the United States.

El Besòs i el Maresme

Originally the land had been irrigated by the irrigation of the burrow and the Verneda, remains of an old arm of the river Besòs that empties into the Camp de la Bóta.

Hagfish

Hagfish have also been observed actively hunting the red bandfish, Cepola haastii, in its burrow, possibly using their slime to suffocate the fish before grasping it with their dental plates and dragging it from the burrow.

Hediste diversicolor

Histolysis then occurs and the body wall becomes brittle and eventually bursts, liberating the eggs into the burrow.

Izatha oleariae

nestpeg (a peg used to mark a penguin burrow), and another in the bark of a live Brachyglottis stewartiae.

J. W. Burrow

The theme of the inscription on the plinth of the statue (alluding to the poet's lament for the passing of 'Sweet Auburn', Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village) may also be seen in connection with what Burrow mentions in the later book The Crisis of Reason: European Thought, 1848-1914: '...the growth of great cities with mass population....

Kimura-gumo

It fixes its eggs on the surface of its burrow with silk so that they are well protected.

Machars

Burrow Head (the southernmost tip of the peninsula) is about eighteen miles from Point of Ayre on the Isle of Man, and trade links have long existed between the two places, much of which involved smuggling.

Nerodia erythrogaster neglecta

Upland woods and slightly-elevated lowland chimney crayfish (Cambarus diogenes) burrows are used as winter hibernation sites.

Phragmosis

An example can be seen in the mygalomorph spider Idiosoma nigrum (Black Rugose Trapdoor Spider), which protects itself in its burrow by positioning itself so as to block the burrow with its abdomen, which is unusually hard.

Priory Park, Warwick

Because there are many burrows around the park European rabbits are a common sight, even to the casual observer.

Segojan Earthcaller

Segojan's relationships with burrowing mammals is so close that emissaries of the animal lords of the Beastlands often pay visits to the Gemstone Burrow.

Yarbrough

In English it originated as a habitational or topographic name from Yarborough and Yarburgh in Lincolnshire, named with Old English eorðburg ‘earthworks’, ‘fortifications’, (a compound of eorðe/eorethe ‘earth’, ‘soil’ + burg ‘fortress’, ‘burrow’).


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