Spotlight Specimen: Dung Beetles @morethanadodo
Spotlight Specimen: Dung Beetles  @morethanadodo
Uploaded October 2016 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
One cow can produce over nine tonnes of dung per year. With a population of about 3.4 million cows in the UK alone, that’s a heck of a lot of dung deposited on our grasslands. Just imagine how much dung is produced every year if we include the output of horses, sheep, pigs, and all the wild animals out there.

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Spotlight Specimen: Dung Beetles

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