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Dung beetles, with Sally-Ann Spence

Instant Genius

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The Dung Beetle Project in Australia

In australia, the native dung beetles have adapted and evolved alongside marsupials. And they search for ovine and bovine dung - something they'd never been introduced to before. So what they did was they launched the australian dung beetle project. It ran from 19 64, i think, to 19 85. They wanted to look out over se the impact of releasing non natives. That's a huge thing you've got to do before you release anything. I suppose that didn't then have an impact on the native ones just eating the marsupial poo, and imported ones are eating the sheep and cow poo. Hand there's not going to

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