Dung Beetles Use Cosmic GPS to Find Their Way
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When the sun goes down, dung beetles rely on a galactic source–light from the Milky Way–to navigate, according to a recent report in Current Biology. Study co-author Eric Warrant, of Lund University in Sweden, explains how dung beetles see the starry night sky.
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Eric Warrant
Eric Warrant is a functional zoology professor at Lund University in Lund, Sweden.
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