It focuses on a small colony of people struggling to defend themselves against the virals.

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The ornithologists studied a small colony that was living close to the village of Feherto in southern Hungary, an area of fishponds surrounded by willow and poplar trees.

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From there, visitors transfer to a boat for a short ride to Isla Martillo, a research station that monitors the 3, 000 pairs of Magellanic penguins and a small colony of gentoo penguins that nest here between September and April.

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Ospreys have returned to a small breeding colony in Northumberland for the fourth year in a row.

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They compile statistics, perform inspections, write reports for highly engaged but small audiences on subjects such as bee-colony collapse.

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The Colony Room, a private members' drinking club, is a small, brashly green-painted space up some narrow stairs.

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Dow AgroSciences has come up with a novel way to attack termites by introducing small amounts of chemical bait into the ground that termites ingest and take back to their colony, which is then destroyed.

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