The wood shavings padding their cage floors are sterilized, as are their food pellets.

FORBES: Crossbreed

In a business where profit margins are seldom thicker than wood shavings, cost control is everything.

FORBES: Out of the woods

The ground is liberally covered with sawdust and wood shavings.

BBC: A tale of the South Pacific

There's a Noguchi coffee table and a collection of chairs with modern lines designed by architects, including Frank Gehry's Power Play chair, which looks like it's made out of wood shavings.

WSJ: Where Art and Architecture Collide