Marnie Chesterton

I want to bring Phyllis in here.

Which animals do you think or are there animals that produce the best dung for these dung beetles?

Can you say that?

Oh, yeah.

That's an interesting question.

Thank you for asking.

Let's say dung of elephants, dung of rhino.

Of course, we don't know about those cases from Mount Maaba.

I'm talking about in general dung beetles.

Okay.

They go for rotten fruit, for example, or carrion, which we call rotten meat, okay?

That's why when we're doing like a monitoring program, like a survey, like what I did in Mount Mabu,

I have to do several types of baits, like from dung, from rotten fruits or rotten meat, so we can attract a higher divest of dungy communities.

Given, Jumo, that you have discovered, I mean, at least 15 new species of dung beetle, how do you name them all?

Most of them are named after local people.

For example, I have a lot of species named after marble.

We call, for example, Progderus marbuensis is after marble.

I have another species that I named after a friend of mine who passed away the same year that we went there.

So I named him after him, which is Kedaria Ricardo Gutai, because he did a fantastic work on insects of Mozambique as well.

So he deserved it.