The African Savannah's Secret Cleanup Crew | Wildlife Icons
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About this film
In this episode of Wildlife Icons, we discover how Africa's smallest icons keep its biggest animals going. Elephants digest less than half of what they eat, and a single bull can produce up to 50 tons of dung a year. For dung beetles, that's food, a nursery and something worth fighting for. Almost 16,000 beetles from up to 150 species have been found on a single pile of dung. On the African savannah, dung beetles clear about a ton of dung per hectare every year, and they've been doing this job since the age of the dinosaurs.
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- Love Nature, the YouTube channel of Blue Ant Media, on 2026-10-31
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- Blue Ant Media, whose own site links this channel (checked 2026-10-31)
- Length
- 44 min
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- English, as YouTube records it
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