The place has become a nest dropped into the middle of the park.
Then, afterwards, watching Ellen slide around her old quarters, more recently Caprica's nest, dropping poisonous spiel about her and Saul not being able to keep their hands off each other – it's one of the most sharply played moments of personal politics, as evil and dark as the petty-minded moves Cavil was chastised for last week.
Thus we test if the rate of ants leaving the nest drops off in this manner, and compare the observed exit rate for the ants to that predicted by the null model.
The small craft lift-off from a customized "drone-nest," drop their loads by parachute, then return to their base — guided digitally by Zipline's California navigation system connected to Rwanda's 3G network.
Then, bracing herself on both hind limbs and with the tail centred over the nest, she drops her eggs into the hole.
Playing a bewigged, forked-tongue charmer drooling gossip inside this viper's nest, he drops nuggets like his signature line, "I'm not naïve, I'm superficial," in the languid, insinuating tone of a Southern courtier.
When a wood thrush flew by the Trailhead mound carrying a grasshopper to her own nest and dropped part of the crushed insect to the ground, a patrolling worker found it in less than a minute and triggered a chain action.
After that the nest temperature drops, despite the fact that the outside temperature usually does not limit foraging and the ants are still active.
Nesting pairs dropped from 363 in 1987-88 to 20 in 1998-99, according to BNHS ornithologist Vibhu Prakash.
Nests in the shaded hatchery were 1°C cooler on average than nests on the open beach, and most nests experienced a drop in temperature following heavy rainfall.
