# The dance of the dung beetle

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDxWitsUniversity
- Speaker: Marcus Byrne
- Year: 2012
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Biology
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/marcus_byrne_the_dance_of_the_dung_beetle)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

A dung beetle has a brain the size of a grain of rice, and yet it shows a tremendous amount of intelligence when it comes to rolling its food source -- animal excrement -- home. How? It all comes down to a dance.

## Lectures

1. [The dance of the dung beetle](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/marcus_byrne_the_dance_of_the_dung_beetle/1b8152e959e8), 17 min (TED's player)