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Passive Air Exchange

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During a presentation sponsored by Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, biologist J. Scott Turner debunked some 50-year-old assertions that termite mounds’ complex tunnel structure works to circulate air in an orderly manner from a nest chamber low in the mound, up a central chimney away from the nest, and, as the air cools, down small outer tunnels to the bottom of the nest.

Termites as architects

Insects’ mounds provide useful lessons in ventilation

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DateOctober 21, 2010