I got the giggles watching these little bugs in the desert near Jaiselmer, India, in September 2010.
Note that there are 3 beetles: one doing all the work (guessing that to be the female), one protecting the big chunk of camel dung (guessing that to be the male), and the interloper, attempting to steal the precious manure.
After all the wrestling and thwarted theft attempt of the previous video, this video shows the beetles digging out a new home for their dung.
Notice how the worker goes in head-first, kicking out sand between her hind legs, then turns and "snowplows" out the sand with her head. Yeah...the big protector...just sits there...
Note that there are 3 beetles: one doing all the work (guessing that to be the female), one protecting the big chunk of camel dung (guessing that to be the male), and the interloper, attempting to steal the precious manure.
After all the wrestling and thwarted theft attempt of the previous video, this video shows the beetles digging out a new home for their dung.
Notice how the worker goes in head-first, kicking out sand between her hind legs, then turns and "snowplows" out the sand with her head. Yeah...the big protector...just sits there...
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