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Marnie Chesterton

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Unexpected Elements
Celebrating Science on Africa Day

I mean, it looks pretty special, but you've proved it with biodiversity.

Unexpected Elements
Celebrating Science on Africa Day

And now the Mozambique government's decided to protect it.

Unexpected Elements
Celebrating Science on Africa Day

I want to bring Phyllis in here.

Unexpected Elements
Celebrating Science on Africa Day

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

Unexpected Elements
Celebrating Science on Africa Day

Can you say that?

Unexpected Elements
Celebrating Science on Africa Day

Oh, yeah.

Unexpected Elements
Celebrating Science on Africa Day

That's an interesting question.

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Celebrating Science on Africa Day

Thank you for asking.

Unexpected Elements
Celebrating Science on Africa Day

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

Unexpected Elements
Celebrating Science on Africa Day

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

Unexpected Elements
Celebrating Science on Africa Day

I'm talking about in general dung beetles.

Unexpected Elements
Celebrating Science on Africa Day

Okay.

Unexpected Elements
Celebrating Science on Africa Day

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

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Celebrating Science on Africa Day

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

Unexpected Elements
Celebrating Science on Africa Day

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.

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Celebrating Science on Africa Day

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

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Celebrating Science on Africa Day

Most of them are named after local people.

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Celebrating Science on Africa Day

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

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Celebrating Science on Africa Day

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

Unexpected Elements
Celebrating Science on Africa Day

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