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20:30 Jun 11, 2018 |
Spanish to English translations [PRO] Science - Botany / aquatic plants | |||||
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| Selected response from: Marie Wilson Spain Local time: 12:29 | ||||
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3 +5 | surales |
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3 | swamps (zurales) |
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surales Explanation: According to the BBC: "East of the Andes mountains, in the floodplains of great Orinoco River of South America, there lies a mysterious place. The Surales is a landscape of green mounds alternating with deep pits. The mounds are organised in intricate patterns, which vary from simple rounds to veritable labyrinths. So regular are the arrangements, you might think they had been built by human engineers. In fact, these mounds were built by humble earthworms. But these are no ordinary earthworms. The builders of the Surales are earthworms up to 3ft (1m) long." http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160526-the-giant-earthworms... And others: The Surales, Self-Organized Earth-Mound Landscapes ... - NCBI - NIH https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4864223/ by A Zangerlé - 2016 - Cited by 8 - Related articles May 11, 2016 - They are found in the Orinoco Llanos of Colombia and Venezuela, mostly .... Consequently, we investigated the ecology of surales in three field .. Mystery of the giant 'surales' mounds is solved: Bizarre heaps of mud ... www.dailymail.co.uk/.../Mystery-giant-surales-mounds-solved... May 11, 2016 - Rising above the waterlogged grass plains of northern Columbia and southern Venezuela are strange mounds that stud the landscape and have baffled scientists for decades. Now researchers have found the regularly spaced, densely packed hummocks of soil are made by giant earthworms ... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 23 mins (2018-06-11 20:54:46 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Last link doesn't seem to work: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3585122/Myste... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 27 mins (2018-06-11 20:58:44 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- 2nd link, The Surales, Self-Organized Earth-Mound Landscapes .: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.... |
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