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One of the most interesting facts about the dung beetles are their remarkable feats of strength. Many dung beetles can move a dung ball up to 50 times its own weight. The strongest ever recorded beetle pulled a ball over a thousand times its own weight. This would be the equivalent of a...
However, some dung beetle species share their child care responsibility between the male and female. Studies have found that male dung beetlesadjust their parental behaviorsto their female pair. When paired with smaller females, they will perform more parental duties rather than when paired with larg...
Telocoprids are the most well known group; gathering and rolling dung balls away from the dung pile and later burying the 'brood ball' below ground. The telocoprid (often called the African Dung Beetle) is often used as a control for ageing animal dung in the summer, as no more than ...
“moving rock in the road”. On closer inspection we found that it was a dung beetle rolling a dung ball, trying to navigate his way over the rough terrain. We sat for almost 35 minutes on the ground watching him move around. It was interesting to see the dynamics between the male ...
During our survey, while we were addressing the issue of human use of elephant products, fifteen mahouts and one woman whose father was a mahout, all fromThongmyxay, mentioned therapeutic uses of elephant dung beetle brood chambers (EBC). This scarab beetle has been identified asHeliocopris dom...
So far he had spent the first three days of his tenure doing little more than conducting job interviews with beetle-browed economists far to the right of the late Milton Friedman while nursing his attendant migraine, and sneaking a nostalgic look at the Hang Seng Index on Bloomberg TV. His ...