Even insects may visit locally concentrated sources of ions like brackish seeps or the urine and dung of larger animals. |
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So some years ago Australia wondered what they could do to ease the fly scourge and hit on the idea of an African dung beetle. |
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A priest was stationed with a round brass tray which held an oil lamp, cow dung ash, and flowers. |
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One formula to prevent baldness included a mixture of wine, saffron, pepper, vinegar and rat dung. |
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Studies of livestock have found that the presence of avermectins slow the degradation of dung due to its harmful effects on dung insects. |
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The stone walls and stick ceiling drip with black tar from decades of burning yak dung. |
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Farmyard manure is prepared from dung, yet about 60 to 70 per cent of dung is used as fuel in rural areas. |
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They also provide dung for manure and fuel, and they pull ploughs and carts. |
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The bags are filled with manure comprising cow dung, neem cake, prawn shell powder and neopeat. |
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Hippocrates sought relief from his baldness by rubbing pigeon dung all over his head. |
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Cows were tethered near the wall, to provide milk, ghee and cow dung for the rituals. |
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He could have filmed a documentary on the life and times of the African dung beetle, for all I cared, and I would have disliked him all the same. |
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The dung beetle is the first animal known to use the polarization patterns of the moon to navigate. |
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It was there that he saw how extensively elephant dung was used as agricultural fertilizer to nourish the otherwise barren land. |
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The dung beetle feeds on filth and produces the same filth from which she then breeds. |
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Permanent and semi-permanent homes resembling igloos were built of sticks and branches plastered with mud, and with cow dung on the roofs. |
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Animal dung, still used as fertilizer, was piled up in the Sicilian streets awaiting use. |
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Avoid dung or urine patches and areas where fertiliser or lime was heaped or spilled. |
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A freezer filled with carefully labeled seeds, leaves and animal dung sits next to a cooler filled with beer. |
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The parrot, the mouse, the cockroach, and the dung beetle all have the same rights to life as human beings. |
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If you're a male dung beetle and you want pry another male out of his tunnel, it helps to have a longer horn. |
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I've helped a Maasai tribeswoman in Tanzania repair her leaking roof with mud and cow dung. |
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The smoke comes from cow dung fires used to drive off flies and mosquitoes. |
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The report also says blowers can affect air quality by blowing up dust including pesticides, fertilizers, pollen and dung. |
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He poked at the fire with a stick pushing unburned dung cakes into the centre. |
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Then there's the problem on country roads of farmers leaving muck from their dung or slurry spreaders. |
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It is a London voice, it is the sound of the mudlark children in the clay flats herding their goats, selling their dung. |
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Their meat is for great occasions and their dung is essential for the building of houses or bomas. |
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And it looks like someone got some horse dung and slung it around in the room. |
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For cooking, she uses bottled gas instead of the traditional dried dung burned in iron stoves. |
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Other flies found on the poultry establishment include soldier flies, small dung flies, fruit flies and rat-tailed maggots. |
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Honey, pepper, and even animal dung were tried as spermicides or diaphragms. |
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Buggies and omnibuses swarmed the street, filling it with the clop of hooves and creak of wheels and thick, sharp smell of dung. |
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They probably did, as they cursed the puddles and horse dung and dodged the horse-drawn carriages and drays. |
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It is a position that has long been no more than a hill of rhetorical dung. |
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Once a female stops shaking, males guard her during oviposition and subsequently attempt to copulate with her away from the dung. |
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He should have called him a fat tub of dung and given him a Chinese burn, while he was there, having flown all that way. |
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With their teeth, hooves, horns and dung, wildebeest have literally cultivated the grasslands. |
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The added handicap is that runners have to dodge the horse dung as they perambulate down the track. |
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In fact you could make paper from all kinds of fibrous material, including elephant and rhino dung. |
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The dung feeds microscopic plankton, which are consumed by worms and larvae. |
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Ethiopia has an oil refinery, but derives most of its energy from firewood, charcoal, and dung. |
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There was no point cutting forests to expand plowlands if there wasn't enough dung to build soil or enough labor to spread it. |
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In the winter dampness, the smell of the mule dung and the mangoes was suffocating. |
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This was a mixture of cow dung, cow urine, milk, curds and ghee in specific proportions, with water added to increase volume. |
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Many earn a living by selling sheep and goats for meat, dung for fertilizer, and wool. |
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Inside the caves here, you can virtually smell the dung of prehistoric mammoths and ground sloths. |
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In other cases it's been shown that veterinary wormers can kill invertebrate insects that are really critical for dung removal. |
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A large proportion of developing country households rely on biomass fuels such as wood, animal dung and crop residues for cooking and heating. |
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Upon burning, the dung produced acrid vapors and would leave behind a white residue which they called sal ammoniac, meaning salt of Ammon. |
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The scent of dung from the nearby manure pile also makes it difficult to breathe. |
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Maya was intrigued and absolutely determined to see a dung beetle rolling a ball. |
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They had been forced to hide off the road twice since climbing out of the dung wagon the day before. |
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This dung or carrion mimicry attracts flesh flies, rove beetles, and even mosquitoes, all of which have been observed with pollen on them. |
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Large, hard-boned dogs crack their skulls on the smoky rubbish wasteland on the edge of town, hanks of gory sheepskin lie in the turgid filth and multi-species dung. |
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Muck in the seventeenth century meant, unequivocally, animal dung. |
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In the natural rain forest, this separation of rubber trees is easily produced, thanks to the unknowing help of seed dispersers such as monkeys and dung beetles. |
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He and fellow operators had argued that use of the dung catchers as an additional part of their horses' tack could compromise the welfare of the animals. |
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About two billion people living in developing countries still rely on wood, charcoal and dung for cooking, heat and light, according to UN figures. |
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If you were rotten, you might be a vole or an asp or a dung beetle. |
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Examples include butterflies ovipositing on host plants, beetles and flies on dung pats, parasitoid wasps on insect hosts, and many insects on seeds or fruit. |
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The book is enclosed in glass along with dozens of tobacco beetles who over the course of the exhibition consume much of the book, leaving their dung behind. |
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Will it change into a dung beetle or into a beautiful butterfly? |
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Studies of the preserved dung and animal remains are beginning to provide insight into large mammal paleobiology and community development during the Holocene. |
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On dung, the fungus usually appears as part of a succession of different genera, not independently, and can also live saprophytically on plant remains. |
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I smell the warm aroma of delicious fresh dung seeping through the heap. |
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Other than a few inquisitive goats and a lot of cow dung, the road was empty, and it seemed to stretch on to infinity, a thin gray ribbon cutting across the arid desert. |
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Notably lacking are spikelet fragments, chaff, awns, pods, and weed seeds that comprise the debris from processing such crops for storage or from using dung as fuel. |
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One tree trunk mould might conceal radio equipment but another shaped like a piece of camel dung hid a booby trap that could blow the tyre off a truck. |
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With enough blood collected a young warrior caked the wound with fresh dung and the animal was released to totter away on unsteady legs but otherwise unharmed. |
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Round huts called mundals are made from poles and brush or vines plastered with mud, animal dung, and ashes and covered with a broad, cone-shaped thatched roof. |
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The presence of dung beetles or flesh flies in the inflorescence can most easily be explained by their attraction to the heat produced by the plant, not its odor. |
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One of Africa's finest exports to Australia is the dung beetle which is doing sterling work in curbing, if not actually getting rid of, the sub-continent's pesky flies. |
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High food ration males were provided with a constant supply of fresh cow dung, and low food ration males were provided no dung but only moist sand. |
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To coax a tulip to break, early growers used a variety of entirely useless nostrums, including plaster from old walls, pigeon dung, or water from dung hills. |
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Alas, the weather was colder than usual, the seeds lay dormant and even the miraculous properties of mountains of animal dung failed to stimulate the fabled meadow. |
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The whole place smells of wildflowers, woodsmoke and horse dung. |
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Private parts, be they of ducks, damselflies or dung beetles, turn out to have evolved novel forms at breakneck speeds. |
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We live in a sad era that mistakes mean-spirited arrogance for intellectual daring, juvenile nastiness for independence of mind, the dung beetle for the artist. |
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The town, without electricity, running water or toilets, is a mud track through the desert with crumbling wooden houses held together by straw and animal dung. |
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So each morning and evening, 700 villagers strike out across dirt roads turned into a morass of mud and dung to deliver medicines to people with AIDS and tuberculosis. |
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Another flash of lightning lit the cave with something that was not quite daylight, and he saw the remains of a fire pit, with a stack of desiccated animal dung next to it. |
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It contains particles from fires set to clear jungles for farming, and from the millions of households that burn coal, wood or animal dung for heating and cooking. |
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By 10 am the diverse dung beetle community had usually removed all trace of fresh dung placed on the soil surface a couple of hours previously. |
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The wine merchants of Nice brew and balderdash, and even mix it with pigeon's dung and quicklime. |
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Her coat was a tangled mass, barbed with last year's burs, matted disgustingly with cow dung. |
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The devil ensnareth the souls of many men, by illuring them with the muck and dung of this world. |
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Coprophilous fungi are fungi that grow on animal dung and disperse spores in nearby vegetation, which the baby mammoth would then consume. |
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Farmers also began fertilizing their fields with dung and lime and rotating their crops to keep the soil fertile. |
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Bat dung, a type of guano, is rich in nitrates and is mined from caves for use as fertilizer. |
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Insect prey includes chafers, dung and ground beetles, caterpillars, leatherjackets, and the nests of wasps and bumblebees. |
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Flies attracted to the moss carry its spores to fresh herbivore dung, which is the favoured habitat of the species of this genus. |
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It is by manuring the land, with the dung of their cattle, that the Negroes raise pretty good crops of sorgho. |
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Traffic mugs, may your wheel-nuts turn into camel dung and your car into a kibbe. |
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They could wash off cow dung, forget a yell that had no meaning. |
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He also found larvae of this species within dung middens of Klipspringer, Oreotragus oreotragus. |
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Sac fungi live in both salt and fresh water and on land they are found in soil, dung and rotting logs. |
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Invasive species like highly flammable cheat grass also moved in, carried there and distributed in cow dung. |
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Isolates of Pilobolus were collected from the dung of horses in Ohio and Indiana and cultivated in microcosms until sporangia were produced. |
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Yamada D, Imura O, Shi K, Shibuya T Effect of tunneler dung beetles on cattle dung decomposition, soil nutrients and herbage growth. |
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The magma is likely the uncrystallized portion of a mass that flowed into the chamber dung a 1955 eruption. |
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Underendowed males of a variety of species, from dung beetles to salmon, procreate via sneakery. |
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The biggest coprolite, or fossilized dropping, is the only piece of T rex dung found so far. |
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They bring home abundant cowpats, rabbit pellets and other animals' dung, often leaving it just outside the midden. |
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Micromorphological analysis of sediment samples suggests pedogenetic transformation of loess deposits with a possible dung component. |
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Gill, a dung beetle specialist for the Canadian Food Inspection Agency in Ottawa, Ontario. |
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Their findings reveal that dung beetles were much more frequent in the previous interglacial period compared with the early Holocene. |
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Anaerobic fermentation of cellulose containing organic materials like cattle dung, poultry droppings, human excreta, crop residues etc. |
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The floor was made of crushed ant-heap, the hard dome of excavated earth above an ant colony, and was kept smooth by smearing it regularly with fresh cow dung. |
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And, of course, it's too early in the marital relationship to tell the love of your life that, based on your diet, she appears to have confused you with a dung beetle. |
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In middle of April with considering climate conditions used of Ganister and topic methods for controlling useless grasses of dung leafs and narrow leafs. |
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There's a group of animals called coprophages that dines mostly on dung. |
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The coffee is produced by feeding coffee beans to elephants, waiting a day and then collecting the beans when they are excreted in the elephant's dung. |
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The TV presenter, 56, will be the voice behind BBC1's Hidden Kingdoms, which will highlight the dangers faced by creatures such as chipmunks, dung beetles and the tree shrew. |
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The TV presenter, 56, will be the voice behind BBC1's Hidden Kingdoms, which highlights the dangers faced by creatures such as chipmunks, dung beetles and the tree shrew. |
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The carabids and staphylinids are a major component of the predatory ground fauna, while the scarab beetles tend to feed on foliage, detritus, and dung. |
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Google's animated Earth Day 2014 doodle feature creatures like Moon jellyfish, puffer fish, dung beetle, veiled chameleon, Japanese macaque, and the rufous hummingbird. |
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The habitat of each species is given as duff, dung, lignicolous and soil. |
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Then it sneezed. Considering what it was smelling, that was no surprise. Tell the truth, I'd gotten so used to the jof jof dung that I didn't notice it anymore. |
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Tentative evidence supports an increased risk of lung cancer from indoor air pollution related to the burning of wood, charcoal, dung or crop residue for cooking and heating. |
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Switzer attacked Tull for prescribing heavy ploughing to all regardless of soil type and condition, and for his dogmatic dismissal of the value of dung. |
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The common name cowslip may derive from the old English for cow dung, probably because the plant was often found growing amongst the manure in cow pastures. |
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Bat dung has been mined as guano from caves and used as fertilizer. |
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The heathens poured out the blood of saints around the altar, and trampled on the bodies of saints in the temple of God, like dung in the streets. |
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An illustrator deposited dung on the steps in protest against his work. |
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The talking point was Chris Ofili's use of balls of elephant dung attached to his mixed media images on canvas, as well as being used as supports on the floor to prop them up. |
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The thought of that relentless, cruel body that smelled of rancid oil, dung, and something more, something gaggingly sweet, almost made Olivia choke. |
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Go to my dvornik and help him to remove the dung. I will pay you. |
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