I was very excited to discover that the dung beetle stars in the preview of David Attenborough’s latest DVD – Africa.
Only 11 seconds of fame (starts at 25s and stops with a bump at 36s), but of all the animals in Africa, David chose us, the mighty dung beetle, to lead the pack!
We bought the DVD and watched it the other day. Absolutely amazing photography and I particularly like the ‘behind the scenes’ at the end of each episode. It shows just how hard the camera crew work in making a documentary like this. It also shows how hard us dung beetles work at rolling (check out episode 5).
Doug the Dung Beetle 
I also enjoy watching David Attenborough’s nature videos. (The “Birds” series is a favourite.) I’ll have to check out the Africa one.
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We have the birds series too and love it…..but dung beetles rule!
Doug
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Whoo hoo!!! 🙂 I’d been ho hum about Attenborough until one day I saw a program on TV that he did about dung beetles – this was many years ago. I was an instant convert! and forgave him his accent 🙂
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He has stood the test of time
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You’re not kidding it stops with a bump! I think I hear Hollywood calling…
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Poor little guy. Can’t help but feel for it
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