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Dung beetles

Published on Jan 31, 2020

This is a gt project for my school and we waatched a Ted talk and had to make a presentation. http://www.ted.com/talks/marcusbyrnethedanceofthedung_beetle.html The link above is the Ted talk. Type it in to your search engine.

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Dung beetles

By Thomas David McMillin lV
Photo by berniedup
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Dung beetles

  • Only 10% of dung beetles roll the dung
  • there are over 6000 species of dung beetles in the world. 2000 of them are on the arfrican continent.
  • a male can be identified by the hair on its back legs.
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Facts continued...

  • Did you know that most dung beetles use their hind legs to drag the dung and hide it?
  • Some beetles make a den where they store pellets of poop.
  • Dung beetles use the polarized trail left by the sun to navigate.
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Dung beetles

  • Some dung beetles dig to the bottom of a pile of dung to eat.
  • The dung is so valuable to the beetles that they are willing to steal dung from other beetles.
  • Most dung beetle larvae live in some of the dung that is collected.
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white is beetles with cooler feet. The amount of stops made.

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The dung beetle dance

Photo by Andi Gentsch
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The dung beetle beetle does a little dance on top of the dung to check where it is and keep cool from the hot desert grounds you find most dung beetles on. Some times while a beetle is dancing, another beetle will steal it. This behavior is called dung jacking

Photo by Jochen Smolka
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Thank you

Dung Beetle, by Thomas David McMillin IV

Thomas Mcmillin