SciShow: How Dung Beetles Clean Up Our Messes

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Content of the Lesson: Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free. The first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium subscription and a 30 day free trial. You probably don’t spend much time thinking about dung beetles, but maybe you should! Because it turns out they might be able to help us a lot by improving agricultural yields and fighting climate change. Hosted by: Rose Bear Don't Walk (she/her) ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Matt Curls, Alisa Sherbow, Dr. Melvin Sanicas, Harrison Mills, Adam Brainard, Chris Peters, charles george, Piya Shedden, Alex Hackman, Christopher R, Boucher, Jeffrey Mckishen, Ash, Silas Emrys, Eric Jensen, Kevin Bealer, Jason A Saslow, Tom Mosner, Tomás Lagos González, Jacob, Christoph Schwanke, Sam Lutfi, Bryan Cloer ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? SciShow Tangents Podcast: https://scishow-tangents.simplecast.com/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishowFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow #SciShow #science #education #learning #complexly ---------- Sources: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0929139317310971 https://academic.oup.com/jas/article-abstract/73/8/2483/4632901 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0929139310000867 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0006320708001420 https://academic.oup.com/jas/article-abstract/73/8/2483/4632901 https://www.nature.com/articles/srep18140 https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691634593/dung-beetle-ecology Images: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Adults-fly-into-the-dung-pat-to-feed-and-mate-Beneath-the-dung-pat-the-juvenile-life_fig1_258504980 https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/28828085


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