The player controls an anteater that elongates his tongue through maze-like anthills eating ants. It can colonize blowouts, anthills, and prairie dog towns. Anthills of the Savannah is a 1987 novel by Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe. There are also areas of tall fen and dry grassland with many anthills. In the middle is a field which has chalk grassland plants and large anthills. In villages, the anthills where the snakes are thought to reside, are searched. The green woodpecker is attracted by the anthills. "Maru" are big white mushrooms that grow near anthills. From the many anthills around, a man and a woman came out. The name of the town literally translated means City of Anthills. The park promotes its signature bike trails, the "Anthills", on its website. Huge anthills formed around Agni Sharma and this earned him the name of Valmiki. He then warned off his company not to step on the anthills.