The dance of the dung beetle

Title:: The dance of the dung beetle
Speaker:: Marcus Byrne
Description:: 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.

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Video Language:: English
Team:: closed TED
Project:: TEDTalks
Duration:: 17:08

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