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The dance of the dung beetle - Marcus Byrne

2013-04-29

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A dung beetle has a brain the size of a grain of rice, and yet shows a tremendous amount of intelligence when it comes to rolling its food source -- animal excrement -- home. How? It all comes down to a dance. (Filmed at TEDxWitsUniversity.)

Talk by Marcus Byrne.