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 ...

and his colleagues have discovered a killer dung beetle that pooh-poohs its ancestral dung ball-rolling ways, opting instead to maim and often decapitate ... Lab safety rules dictate that one must tie ...

When you contemplate what foods beetles eat, it is tempting to say “just about everything.” Beetles eat a wide range of ...

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 ...