Oscar Wilde
famously said 'we are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at
the stars' - and this is particularly true of dung beetles.
The
creatures are known to navigate using the light of the Milky Way and
now researchers have found they dance on top of a ball of dung while
taking a 'photo' of how celestial bodies are aligned.
The
swift pirouette the balletic beetles perform enables them to know where
they are going and roll off with their ball of dung in a straight line
across the savannah.
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