Based on ethological observations of dung beetle ball-rolling behavior, a modular neural-based loco-manipulation control is created. The ALPHA robot, inspired by dung beetles, can walk and roll ...

How gravity causes a perfectly spherical ball to roll down an inclined plane is part of elementary school physics canon. But the world is messier than a textbook.    Scientists in the Harvard John A.

Ancient Egyptians associated dung beetles rolling balls of dung with their Sun god rolling the “Sun disk” across the celestial sphere. In fact, even the insect’s name in Egyptian derives ...

Our most familiar image of the dung beetle shows one of them rolling a finely shaped ball of dung to a hiding place where it digs a hole and lays its eggs. Along with the dung ball rollers ...

They will simply not touch the excrement of other animals Two “rolling” beetles, a male and a female, will form and bury a ...

The traps consisted of simple plastic containers that Mamantov buried in the soil, but the key to her trapping success was the bait: tennis-ball-size spheres of cow dung. Dung beetles are not ... full ...

Ancient Egyptians associated dung beetles rolling balls of dung with their Sun god rolling the “Sun disk” across the celestial sphere. In fact, even the insect’s name in Egyptian derives ...