Tonight, our son was playing around with our two year old and told her he was going to fill her room with "dung". I asked him what he knew about dung and he said "it's the waste dropping of animals". He then went on to report that "dung beetles eat dung and turn it in to useful material for soil".
He concluded with "the world would be a lot smellier place without dung beetles".
He knows things he shouldn't know (who is teaching him this stuff?)
As it turns out, he is mostly correct. According to Thaibugs.com :
- "...a small 1.5 Kg pile of Elephant dung on the African savannah attracted 16 000 dung beetles of various shapes and sizes, who between them had eaten and or buried that dung completely in just two hours. One dung beetle can bury 250 times its own weight in a night."
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