Dung beetle

Hi everyone, thanks for the nice words and all the questions! I've added a second photo to show some of the smaller beetles that I found on this piece of dung as well - not sure if those are the babies/males/females?! Logan - the smaller ones were around 1 cm- 2 cm in size and the beetle in the main picture was about 3.5 cm - 4 cm big. I was trying my best to take as many photos as possible, but these little guys burrow quite quickly! (especially because the dung was so fresh) :) Lauren I'm not sure what dung this belongs to - from the animals found on the reserve I think it might be red hartebeest dung.

Dung beetles navigate at night by using the Milky Way! http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/...

Nice spotting!!

I can smell it, just looking at the picture! Amazing.

Wow a really fresh perspective! Did you see the male? Whose dung was it?

Awesome staccyh! How big as it? Did you get anymore pictures?