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Project Noah Nature School
Polistes sp.
Spotted on Nov 12, 2011
Submitted on Nov 15, 2011
7 Comments
Thanks, and thanks for the book recommendation! I'm slowly reading a book called Avian Architecture by Goodfellow about how birds make their varied kinds of nests.
Great idea for a mission. It reminded me of Animal Architecture by
Karl Von Frisch
Interesting! Thanks for the link.
Ava, this rotary jail is in Crawfordsville, Indiana. There are 16 wedge-shaped cells, in 2 tiers, enclosed in a stationary cage. There is one door on each tier and cell block is rotated to an individual cell to allow a prisoner to move in or out of a cell and only one guard was needed to watch the prisoners. This was the Montgomery county jail until 1973. http://www.rotaryjailmuseum.org/
AnnaWhipkey, thanks for joining the animal architecture mission!
And what's a rotary jail?
thanks Longmustache, this nest was spotted on the outside of the only still-operating rotary jail in the US
Great spotting!