It is incredible how animals with their survival instinct can cover the need to protect themselves from the cold, rain, sun or any weather change that occurs. Although some animals live a wild life, they look for ways to stay protected and build shelters using materials such as straw, sticks, stones, dry leaves.
Below are images of how these architects by nature make their protective dens.
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1. Swallow’s Nests
Swallows build their nests in cavities that are very high or abandoned. The material they use is diverse. Even these nests are edible.
2. Greater Zacua Nest
They weave their nest with grass, live socially from approximately 30 birds, including the dominant male and females.
3. Wasp Hive
They usually live individually, but when they live together they build a hive made of paper and resin, which protects them because of their cone shape.
4. Berry Weaver Bird’s Nest
They build their hanging nests in palm trees, thorny acacias, and trees, where predators cannot reach due to their location. These nests can be found next to each other or in a location away from other berry weavers.
5. Red Horn Bird’s Nest
The red hornero makes its nests using mud and clay. These birds are native to South America. They are so called because their nest looks like a clay oven, which protects them not only from the cold, but also from predators; Once they leave it, it serves as a den for other animals.
6. Beehive
It has a structure made up of cells made of wax, they are walls built to contain their larvae and accumulate honey and pollen inside the hive. Bees spend all their time taking care of their honeycomb, as here they process the wax to feed themselves and raise their young.
7. Compass Termite Nest
These types of termites build their nests very high, as they can measure up to four meters from the ground giving space to house millions of them. The shape of these mounds are wedge-shaped, which are thermal.
8. Brown Pergolero’s Nest
These birds live in Australia and New Guinea. The male makes this type of den by adorning it with flowers, sticks, stones, berries and beetles, making it a very colorful hut to attract females. However, females do not use them to have their young.
9. Republican Weaver Bird’s Nest
They are native to South Africa, Namibia and Botswana, their nests are very large and for this reason they can house hundreds of birds of different sizes. Nests are built with sticks and grass. Deep in the nest a warm temperature can be maintained to prevent these birds from feeling the cold of the night
10. Tricoptera
These insects are very similar to moths and butterflies, they live in small cases that they form with grains of sand, sticks, plant debris to protect themselves.
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