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Each day, the animal kingdom produces roughly enough poop to match the volume of water pouring over Victoria Falls. So why isn’t the planet covered in the stuff? You can thank the humble dung beetle for eating up the excess. Eleanor Slade and Paul Manning explain how these valiant insects make quick work of an endless stream of feces.
Lesson by Eleanor Slade and Paul Manning, animation by Anton Bogaty.
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1:31 A couple of freaks
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Isn't soil basically just that? Poop?
The only beetles I love.
سبحان الله
Some days, it really *does* feel like the world is covered in poop
Me watching this while eating dessert:
subhanAllah. How can you deny Allah/God while He has created everything in a perfect order?
😂😅🤢
This is to show you we have a creator 💯
well, this is a different type of beatle…/j
ok but here's the question: where does their poop go?
I wonder if any species of these beetles species alive today has been collecting poop since the first day tetrapodsa came onto land and dedicated😂
Twinks do the deed while Alpha's are fooled while guarding the intrance, what a world.
سبحان الله
0:20 Victoria falls=poopria falls
What a champ.
Wow! This video makes me worried about the global decline in beetles over the past 30 years.
Egyptians worship them…
Is also bio.
"Hey beetle! Eat s***t and live!"
Ty beetles❤
2:12
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Very nice 😂😂
Poop
It's like a world patch, after they realized it was an issue
This is something that honestly never occurred to me, but I'm glad that someone's asking the important questions.
My man posing as a girl to get with another dude's wife. Aahahah
I will NOT Be tempted to take a closer look LOL !!
The world's janitor
Guys now I feel like going to bathroom 😭
Thank god this was a cartoon
Atheists explain this?
Accomplishes its goals by doing its business haha
Accomplishes the benefits by doing its business haha
Accomplishes the benefits by doing its business haha
Now I have a reason to not pick up after my dog at the park
They invented wheel before humans !!
now they gotta be my fav insect
And then they eat da poopoo
I only stopped here because the title showed up in my suggestion column, and it's the only title that ever made me laugh out loud simply seeing it. AND WOULDN'T YOU KNOW, there's now a title in my suggestion column "The bug that poops candy"!
I can tell it's going to be a long night…
0:07 me watching this on the toilet: "Of cource I know him, he's me!"
Take a closer look at a beetle rolling poop? Nah! I'm good!
and people think God doesn’t exist. what are the chances of this?
Finally a video explaining something I've been concerned about for a very long time!
very informative