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Tag: Marcus Byrne

Creatures that present poo to their girlfriends as a gift

September 20, 2015 Gwinyai Masukume

If you are in Johannesburg this week, you can hear details about the ways a male is judged by the size of his balls, if that male is a dung beetle. It is not uncommon for male dung beetles to obtain sexual favors from females by presenting them with a ball of crap. But of course […]

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“Can’t get enough of the poo”

April 25, 2015 Marc Abrahams

The University of the Watwatersrand writes, on its web site: Can’t get enough of the poo BY ERNA VAN WYK 24 April 2015 “Tonight you will hear about small animals that play around in poo.” With this, Professor Marcus Byrne started off his inaugural lecture delivered in the Senate Room at Wits University on Tuesday, […]

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