Sentences with phrase «dung beetles from»

For context, the activity of almost 5,000 dung beetles from 53 species was recorded within the largest logging concession in the Brazilian Amazon, covering 544,000 hectares of native forest — an area 3.5 times that of London.

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Beetles typically reduce methane gas wafting off dung, but pats from treated cows showed a 1.8-fold increase in methane output.

Their findings reveal that dung beetles were much more frequent in the previous interglacial period (from 132,000 to 110,000 years ago) compared with the early Holocene (the present interglacial period, before agriculture, from 10,000 to 5,000 years ago).

Apart from the two new dung beetles, formally called Onthophagus clavijeroi and Onthophagus martinpierai, the present paper also provides theories about the current distributions of these insects across the Mexican mountains and their putative evolutive relationships.

What they found was that the dung beetles rolled in straight paths and made it to the periphery quickly using natural light from the moon or a moonless starry sky.

Dung beetles «see about 1000 times better than honey bees, which have the best daytime vision,» explains James Gould, an evolutionary biologist and an expert in insect communication and navigation from Princeton University.

One of the largest and most important groups of dung beetles in the world evolved from a single common ancestor and relationships among the various lineages are now known, according to new research by an entomologist from Western Kentucky University.

To give their young a start in life, female dung beetles — which have much larger horns than males — make balls of dung, called brood balls, from cowpats and bury them underground.

So they trapped airborne dung beetles in a Swaziland savanna by hanging up a transparent sheet and selected one individual from each of 10 species to dissect.

«When you combine the current increase in meat consumption around the world with the steep declines in many dung beetle species, overall emissions from cattle farming can only increase.»

Illustrated in ruddy, earth - toned illustrations, this collection of poems catalogs the animal residents of the African savanna, from the diminutive dung beetle to the massive elephant and titular wildebeest.

Marvel at the sight of humpback whales as they spout and gambol close to the shoreline and experience a close - up encounter with Africa's spectacular wildlife, from the mighty elephant to the captivating dung beetle.

Now why would a dung - beetle possibly be wanting to collect fruit, aside from looking like a boss collecting it?

[T] he standing value of timber dropped from $ 10,460 per hectare to $ 2,010 per hectare after two logging rotations, yet these forests retained over 75 percent of bird and dung beetle species found in primary unlogged forest.