Dung Beetles and the Galaxy

[drhoz]

Five million years ago, protohuman hominids were stumbling around South Africa, and around their feet the industrious dung beetles rolled their precious balls of shit. I'll give you three guesses which one was paying more attention to the wider universe.

Marie Dacke of Lund University in Sweden has proven in a series of elegant experiments that

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[reynardo]

Now I have an image of a pile of Dung Beetles in Egypt, madly burying a Stargate then wandering away and trying to look innocent...

[drhoz]

heehee

[hadespuppy]

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[clifty_man]

I appreciate this post.

[drhoz]

thanks :)

[squid_ink]

this post... so much love. Spent some time looking thru zebra poo for dung beetles one summer.

love love love

[drhoz]

*chuckles* find many?

[elenbarathi]

Woot, how cool is that? Thanks for posting this!

[drhoz]

no worries :)

[maladaptive]

This is awesome.

But oh man that beetle's mittens.

[drhoz]

:D