This is a new one on me - those are no kind of "fairy circles" that I've ever seen. It appears that someone is trying to re-define the term "fairy circle".
When I was younger, a fairy circle was a circular ring of grass that was greener than the rest of the grass around it. Folklore had it that such rings were created by the fairies dancing at night - the ring they danced in grew better, was greener and taller than the other grass. I've never heard of a fairy circle in a desert, or other grassless area, because grass was crucial to the base definition of what a fairy circle WAS.
Years and years ago, scientific investigation determined that fairy circles were created by a particular sort of fungus spreading outward, creating a nitrogen rich ring at it's edges. the high nitrogen ring promoted grass growth, and a circular ring of greener, taller, better growing grass was the result.
Now they find a "new" phenomena they are trying to blame on termites, a phenomena with DEAD vegetation rather than better growing vegetation, and they are trying to re-define "fairy circle" to include only that phenomena?
Bastards. Childhood killers.
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When I was younger, a fairy circle was a circular ring of grass that was greener than the rest of the grass around it. Folklore had it that such rings were created by the fairies dancing at night - the ring they danced in grew better, was greener and taller than the other grass. I've never heard of a fairy circle in a desert, or other grassless area, because grass was crucial to the base definition of what a fairy circle WAS.
Years and years ago, scientific investigation determined that fairy circles were created by a particular sort of fungus spreading outward, creating a nitrogen rich ring at it's edges. the high nitrogen ring promoted grass growth, and a circular ring of greener, taller, better growing grass was the result.
Now they find a "new" phenomena they are trying to blame on termites, a phenomena with DEAD vegetation rather than better growing vegetation, and they are trying to re-define "fairy circle" to include only that phenomena?
Bastards. Childhood killers.
.
“Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake