Mysterious African Fairies Might Be Termites http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

For decades, people have been baffled by thousands of bare, circular soil patches that dot arid western African landscapes with inexplicable geometric precision. They're known as fairy circles -- and the fairies, says ecologist Norbert J?rgens, are termites engaged in an extraordinary, landscape-scale act of ecological engineering.



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