Up Close And Personal With The Dung Beetle

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TERRY GROSS
NPR Fresh Air
09-03-2009
Up Close And Personal With The Dung Beetle

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Underneath the cow patties in the pasture and the monkey dung in the jungle, there's a miniature world of sex and violence. Dung beetles with fierce-looking horns are battling over female beetles. And my guest, Douglas Emlen, is studying them. He's an expert on the evolution and development of bizarre or extreme shapes in insects. He's particular interested in insect weaponry. Dung beetles have what he's looking for. Lots of his work is in the ...

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