Morley Read / Brood chambers inside a Termite (Isoptera) nest with workers tending eggs, Napo Province in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Slow motion. (non-ex)

Morley Read / Slow motion clip of a queen termite (Isoptera) in chamber, with workers gathering liquid containing pheromones exuded from the queen's rear end, Ecuador. (non-ex)

Morley Read / Queen Termite (Isoptera) tended by workers in nest chamber, Napo Province, Ecuadorian Amazon. (non-ex)

John Shaw / Late afternoon light warms the colors in the Yellow Mounds area, Badlands National Park, South Dakota, USA, September.

Guy Edwardes / Reed cormorant (Microcarbo africanus) perched on termite mound, Khwai, Botswana.

Jack Dykinga / Eroded Chinle shale mounds with colour bands, beneath the Paria Plateau, Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, Paria Canyon Vermilion, Arizona, USA.

Ingo Arndt / Cathedral Termite mount, Litchfield National Park, Northern Territory, Australia

Ingo Arndt / Magnetic termite (Amitermes meridionalis) aerial view of mounds in grassland, Litchfield National Park, Northern Territory, Australia.

Ingo Arndt / Magnetic termite (Amitermes meridionalis) aerial view of mounds in grassland, Litchfield National Park, Northern Territory, Australia.

Ingo Arndt / Magnetic Termite (Amitermes meridionalis) mounds in grassland, Litchfield National Park, Northern Territory, Australia.

Jim Brandenburg / American Bison (Bison bison) herd on prairie with quartz, Blue Mounds State Park, Minnesota

Denis-Huot / Lion (Panthera leo) cubs sitting on termite mound, Masai-Mara, Kenya. Vulnerable species.