The photos below are still frames retrieved from a short film by TELE IMAGES NATURE depicting Macrotermes natalensis behaviour, which was part of a series of natural phenomena relating to man. The termite mound opened and filmed was explained by me as the consulting scientist for the film The Nature of Champions that was broadcast in France in 2000.

The greater Termite Project (1994–2001) was led by myself and we have published the last scientific data. Most issues were biological with some structural reference to mound size and volume and geological reference to preferred substrate and habitat (see http://hammer.prohosting.com/~victorm/termite_papers.html).

French architects

'98 World Cup Soccer Stadium, Toulouse

Idealistic mound interior

Tube experiment

Foraging

Interface

Bait consumption

Fungus comb

Shelving

Queen in exposed royal chamber

Primary king

Primary queen
The triangular wing stumps are indicative of the founding pair

Egg factory!

Egg deposition

Soil deposition

Soil pellet

Thermoregulation in mines

Johannesburg
 
 

From: La Nature des Champions
Still frames retrieved by Niel Rossouw
Film directed by Frédéric Lepage

Footage courtesy of Tele Images International
 
 

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