Tuesday, 21 January 2020

Group Desert _ Dung Beetle

Analyzing the desert, in our case focused on the hot desert, there is an efficient animal learned how to deal with this extreme dry environment by using dung from other animals, the dung beetle.
Dung beetles are an essential part of the ecosystem by proceeding the dung by tunneling, burying, and fragmenting it. This whole process not only quickly and efficiently removes dung from the surface, it brings all those important nutrients back down into the soil, making the soil fertile and our pastures productive. 


In its tunnels systems they are also protected from the extreme heat.
To transport the dung with balls the dung beetle is one of the strongest animals in comparison to its own body size. It can lift up 250 times their own weight, they are extreme strong force generator to move their dung bowls.

Also an interesting aspect is how the society of dung beetle lives, they have a reproduction system including to implement the eggs into the dung balls and brought into the end of the tunnel system. They are an efficient society by sharing the taking care part of the offspring.

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