Sentences with phrase «hollow tree trunk»

Tapping up to a hundred times on a hollow tree trunk — which, by the way, almost always makes a good nesting place — the male palm cockatoo tries to lure a female to come and check him, and maybe their future nesting home, out.

In Indonesian mosques the time for prayer is announced by powerful beating on a great drum made of a thick, hollow tree trunk covered with buffalo skin; then the call to prayer is usually chanted either from the mosque itself or from the roof of the mosque.

Pickard says that honeybees use the magnetic field around them to align the parallel sheets of a comb when they build in darkness — in hollow tree trunks, for example.

She also began making free - standing sculptures from hollowed tree trunks and wooden slabs that could rest against gallery walls.

Not exact matches

When the person dies, he or she is entombed vertically in the hollowed - out tree trunk.

The family and friends come out to hollow out the tree trunk of the standing tree.

Then live in the hut while they and their family members hollow out the tree trunk.

Living trees can rot from the inside out, leaving only a hollowed trunk.

Their young live in water, normally in pools between the roots of trees or in hollowed - out trunks, and sometimes in discarded coconut shells.

The «song» was indeed the call of large tree frogs that live in hollow trunks in the forest.

He can hide the extraordinary things he whittles inside hollowed out tree trunks and locate them weeks, decades later.

Legend has it that around 1372 a wealthy widow known as «grandmother» Penh discovered five Buddha statues in the hollow trunk of a tree washed up on the banks of the river.

Delicate and poised, spidery and animated, these bronze casts of tree trunks, hollowed out and painted with a radiant gold - leaf interior, seem to prowl the gallery on their spindly branched limbs.

These include Still Living, an installation composed of eighty ash strips held under tension - a work that emerged from a dream about building a bamboo fishing pole - and Original River, a hollowed - out, riverine tree trunk filled with thousands of quartz pebbles sifted from Mississippi River sands over the course of two years.

Ironically, it is these burning fir trees that pose the only real fire threat to their sequoia symbionts, the burning trunk of a fir leaning up against the sequoia can lead to exactly the type of fire hollowing damage that we observe and that ultimately makes it possible for a dead sequoia to fall over at all, otherwise they might remain standing dead for a thousand years [not much good even for the squirrels].

So, this happened: «Screams for help led deputies down a creek bed to find a man stuck inside the hollow trunk of a standing tree Tuesday morning, authorities said.»