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Why do animals need burrows?

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Kevin278

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In general, burrowing animals of any kind loosen up the soil as they travel through it, which gives "breathing room" for the roots of plants to expand into. Burrowing animals help plants grow.

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Burrowing animals help the soil bye breaking down the bedrock and turning it in to broken down bedrock, and eventually subsoil.

That is how burrowing animals help soil.

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Animals need burrows so they can hide from predators and have shelter.

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They burrow and change the soil.

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