The Scientist magazine reports: Dung beetles (Scarabaeus lamarcki) scurry around cow pastures collecting little balls of poop from steaming heaps of excrement and quickly roll those balls to their nests, where they bury them for a future meal. (See a video of this behavior.) According to new research published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, the beetles’ […]
Tag: Milky Way
Marie Dacke explains how dung beetles navigate
Marie Dacke explains how she and her colleagues learned that dung beetles use the Milky Way to navigate their way home. The team was awarded an Ig Nobel Prize (jointly in the fields of biology and astronomy) for that work. This talk was part of TEDxLundUniversity: BONUS: The Lund University announcement about the Ig Nobel Prize
Auto exhaust along the Milky Way
Investigator Scott Sandford alerts us to this pathblazing study: “Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and the unidentified infrared emission bands: Auto exhaust along the Milky Way,” L.J. Allamandola, A.G.G.M. Tielens and J.R. Barker, Astrophysical Journal, vol. 290, 1985, pp. L25-L28.