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The much-depleted collection consisted of a demented wolf, a blind bear and a chimp that chain-smoked cigarettes lit for him by sympathetic locals.Surprisingly better is the feeling of gazing out over the artificial African savannah of Animal Kingdom, Disney's latest theme park near Orlando, Florida, where zebras trot past a termite mound and giraffes pick at lofty trees.

Which is where the termite connection comes in.Termites, a specialised group of social cockroaches, are one of entomology's puzzles.

The MNLA is as riven internally as the termite mounds that dot the region, and its infiltration by AQIM is well-established, however much a majority of Tuareg rebels may loathe the jihadist cause.

The films on Mzima and the baobab eventually won over NBC, but when Mr Root proposed making a documentary about a termite mound ("In America 'termites' is the same kind of word as 'cancer'", he was told), the network took fright.Undeterred, the Roots spent two years filming the termites on their own.

In the past year, an estimated 200 of those 500 Chinese manufacturers have gone bankrupt.In this section Diving for cover Earth-bound Growing pains Europe gets a defence giant Deep blocking Off-target The termite hunter Pirate's paradise ReprintsThe remainder have attempted all sorts of tricks.

A plane that thinks it's a boat A car that runs on water The ultimate game gear Zap! You're not dead Hearts and minds Health 2.0 The world on your desktop The trouble with computers Nuclear dawn A patent improvement Borrowing from nature Jolly green heretic ReprintsSimilarly there are now several buildings that have ventilation systems based on those found in termite mounds.

In Zambia relentless bush advances over a once lush tobacco field; new saplings march among old termite mounds; pythons thicken lazily beneath knotted branches.

In a paper just published in Science, a group at Harvard, led by Justin Werfel, describes termite-inspired robots that can build things by combining magnetic bricks of a standard size.

"DTH has been a big disappointment," says Hani Abuali, of Donaldson , Lufkin & Jenrette an investment bank.In this section Diving for cover Earth-bound Growing pains Europe gets a defence giant Deep blocking Off-target The termite hunter Pirate's paradise ReprintsDisappointment on the ground has also meant oversupply in the skies.

In the Indonesian province of Aceh, victims were housed in leaky, termite-ridden dwellings which had to be pulled down; boats given to Indonesian and Sri Lankan fishermen proved unseaworthy; temporary homes for Indian victims proved too hot to inhabit.

In Africa, by contrast, they found themselves under open skies, with wild browse, the trees filled with weaver birds, the red soil interrupted with termite mounds and the land sweeping away to the icy peak of Mount Kenya.