http://torch.cs.dal.ca/~riordan/sa2007/SA3/dungbeetle.jpgDung beetles eat crap. They eat what other animals throw away and have no care for. Animals can't eat their own feces, which is obvious since they excrete what they can't use. Dung beetles take this useless excrement, and use it as their sustenance.
Imagine eating your dog's feces. It's probably a not so pleasant idea considering the universal idea of how bad feces are. We are all probably genetic predisposed to disliking feces, since our own feces are poisonous to us. Yet another animal feeds and lives off of a material that we look at with disgust. It rolls these balls of crap up and ends up eating them.
People are constantly fascinated by these bugs as well. Just as I am doing now, people can't get enough of dung beetles since they are so opposite of us. It is strange to think that something we put down our mouths and out our anuses go back into another mouth. It's actually gross. But as well all know from the popularity of 2girls1cup (don't search since its inappropriate), it is also something that people are interested in.
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