Of Cabo Pulmo Steinbeck wrote: "Clinging to the coral, growing on it, burrowing into it, was a teeming fauna.
It has burrowed its way out of Israel's siege, with a web of tunnels from Gaza into Egypt.
When a bird arrived at its burrow it was allowed to feed its chick, was then removed manually, weighed and, if of suitable mass (>560 g), fitted with a GPS logging device, and returned to the burrow entrance.
If a Beldings squirrel notices a coyote skulking around outside its burrow, it sometimes sounds the alarm to alert its neighbors.
Just under St. Francis's right hand, a rabbit peeks out of its burrow: it is alert, but wall-eyed, and its stare doesn't reveal what it sees.
And with night settling in at dinner time and burrowing deeper, it is in the hours of darkness that summer literally runs out of time.
To protect it, a 2,000m (6,560ft) fence will be erected around the entire site and be barbed to prevent boar burrowing under it.
Unfortunately, Brooke thinks it's a love song instead of a song of suspicion and paranoia, which keeps her from really burrowing into it.
This will often require sinking the fence into the ground to prevent animals from burrowing under it.
Grass needs to be watered consistently, and earthworms love burrowing beneath it, so grassy lawns typically draw a lot of moles.
