Dung Beetle Dance Provides Crucial Navigation Cues (IMAGE)

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Dung Beetle Dance Provides Crucial Navigation Cues

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This is a dung beetle performing a dance on top of its dung ball.

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Emily Baird; Baird E, Byrne MJ, Smolka J, Warrant EJ, Dacke M (2012) The Dung Beetle Dance: An Orientation Behaviour? PLoS ONE 7(1): e30211. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0030211

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