You learn even more by becoming familiar with where and when you can find it, and what it's doing at different times and places. In the last few days I ve seen a lime-green chameleon, a leopard tortoise, and the spotted the feathers of a helmeted guinea fowl. I've seen all these critters along the side of the road. I ve always loved dung beetles. It might also be my fascination with gross and disgusting things.
Dung beetles are certainly gross.
There are about 7,000 species of dung beetles. If you guessed that the number of species is about the same, you'd be right. A single pile of elephant poop weighs about 5 pounds. That pile of poop can keep 16,000 dung beetles busy for hours. When they're busy, these insects roll, bury, and eating the stuff.