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This was really cool to see - two dung beetles rolling this dung ball. Im not sure if they were fighting for ownership?
Spotted on Dec 26, 2013
Submitted on Dec 27, 2013
5 Comments
Thanks Joshua!
Oh wow. What a great spotting! Funny little hardy creatures.
Thanks Bill :) They were moving so fast that at first we thought it was some other kind of giant beetle, haha! But they were very cooperative with me and stopped rolling their ball to let me get a few snaps in. Very cool, never seen them actually doing this ever before. One of my undergrad uni professors actualy won the Ig Nobel Prize for his research on dung beetles: http://www.bdlive.co.za/national/science.... Thanks for the article Ava, I've seen it before, but always nice to read up on these guys again :)
Great capture! I love dung beetles, and have found many different species, but never actually rolling it into a ball:)
Possibly my favorite piece of nature news from 2013: http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/...