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The following discussion is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Allen3 talk 18:16, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Nest

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A tall termite mound

  • ... that termite nests (pictured) can be nearly 7 m (23 ft) tall, that bald eagle nests can weigh 2 tonnes (4,400 lb), and that an extinct bird likely made a nesting mound 50 m (160 ft) in diameter?
  • Reviewed: Quasar (song)
  • Comment: Yes its true, nest had barely been touched since its creation in 2002 before this week

5x expanded by ThaddeusB (talk). Self nominated at 06:27, 24 August 2013 (UTC).

  • Size of termite nests not cited. Fantastic work indeed. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 10:31, 24 August 2013 (UTC)
  • Fixed - It was supported by a multi-line citation, now directly cited. --ThaddeusB (talk) 17:00, 24 August 2013 (UTC)
  • It is now directly cited [2] under #Insects. Impressive expansion indeed. Alex ShihTalk 07:01, 25 August 2013 (UTC)