Sentence examples for dung piles from inspiring English sources

In the shallow water, Hartlaub's ducks picked through dung piles.

"You have to look for signs, dung piles, things like that".

Territorial and subordinate males alike make dung piles along pathways leading inland, which probably function as olfactory signposts at night.

Males create dung piles, or middens, to mark territorial boundaries that typically follow physical features such as streambeds.

Living in clans of 5 to 80 individuals, spotted hyenas mark the boundaries of their territory with dung piles ("latrines") and scent from anal glands.

These dung piles were deposited there by the Dinodontosaurus, an eight-foot-long ancient animal similar to the rhino, common in the Triassic period.

A new study in the journal PLoS One reports that dancing helps the beetles move away from a dung pile as quickly as possible.

A rare dung pile, left by travelling camels, might be the only chance a beetle has to provide food for their young.

So when the dung beetle Scarabaeus zambesianus gathers up its evening repast, it wants to high-tail it out of the dung pile in case there are thieving insects around.

The beetles also have four eyes, so as they roll away from the dung pile, their top eyes may be constantly watching the sky to help them keep their bearing.

Once a beetle has found some dung and rolled part of it into a ball, he's got to get it out of there, rolling it in a straight line away from the dung pile, or the other beetles will come and poach it.