These features suggest that they were likely to be burrowing animals.

Burrowing animals have brought that contamination to the surface, she said.

There are no known burrowing animals that feed on the root system.

They do it because their ancestors were some kind of burrowing animals," she explained. "

Yet others are burrowing animals, or ground-dwellers, which live in the ground.

By night he slept in the burrows of the larger burrowing animals.

The Red Desert is home to a range of burrowing animals.

In the 20th century the 'anchor-dredge' was developed to sample deep burrowing animals.

The shade of its branches provides protection for small mammals, especially burrowing animals.

This prevents scavengers and burrowing animals from reaching the dead body.

• The badger is adapted to catch small burrowing animals.

This decline has been attributed to disruption by grazing and burrowing animals.

Underneath creatures are mostly based on mushrooms, insects and burrowing animals.

The sea was calm and the waves moved like burrowing animals under the great fields of kelp.

Burrowing animals extensively make use of this fact.

Burrowing animals, such as muskrats, would cause leaks by digging holes.

Additionally, rodents, snakes, or other burrowing animals previously made some of the tunnels.

But other burrowing animals like the small, proto-mammal Diictodon didn't survive the extinction.

Burrowing animals like the groundhog were said to have the supernatural ability to foretell an early spring.

The presence of burrowing animals such as the ground squirrel have been observed in landfills across the Arctic.

As well, there appears to be a shortage of burrowing animals in habitats that are also suitable for the owls.

As it does so it disturbs and unearths other burrowing animals.

The region has plenty of groundwater and, because of common spring floods, does not have many burrowing animals.

However, the mound had suffered extensive disturbance due to the actions of burrowing animals and the cup may have been moved from its original position.

Most are nocturnal, social, burrowing animals, though the degu is largely diurnal.