Dung beetle dance provides crucial navigation cues
Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - 08:31
in Biology & Nature
(PhysOrg.com) -- The dung beetle dance, performed as the dung beetle moves away from the dung pile with his precious dung ball, is a mechanism to maintain the desired straight-line departure from the pile, according to a study published in todays issue of the online journal PLoS ONE.