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It`s Okay To Be Smart, Dung Beetles: The Poop-Rolling Stargazers of the Serengeti | IN OUR NATURE

Dung Beetles: The Poop-Rolling Stargazers of the Serengeti | IN OUR NATURE

Out here in the Wild West at the Serengeti, its no place for the weak,

you might strike it rich, but watch your thorax. There's bandits everywhere. Ready

to steal what you worked hard for I'm not talking about gold. I'm talking about poop.

What is happening?

I can explain guys. I brought a story today about one of my all-time,

favorite subjects. You're not going to believe what this is.

Oh my God. I also brought a story about one of my all-time, favorite subjects.

Same time one, two, three, extreme senses.

Extreme senses.

How long did it take you to practice that one?

I was born this way. Oh, you mean counting to three? I've been doing that for a long time.

Emily. I think you're going to like this for a completely different reason

because of where our story starts.

It's amazing an ecosystem as rich and diverse as the Serengeti,

you know what the most important valuable resource in this entire ecosystem is?

One is right here.

Steaming hot pile, fresh elephant dump.

I'm intrigued.

Ah, It's a beautiful sight.

It is. I mean, how fresh do you think this is.

within the hour?

Yeah. Do you reckon?

Ew. What is he doing.

Okay, we'll talk about that later. I have a little hand sanitizer in my bag.

I mean, I can tolerate a lot of gross stuff, but even I have my limit.

So The number one cool thing that we saw that day was this awesome Bull Elephant. And the

number two coolest thing we saw that day was that number two. I mean, elephants impressive at both

ends. It got to tell ya, but we also, weren't the only ones who found that special Present.

I mean, this is swarming. It's swarming with flies

ants. Like every bug in the Serengeti, I feel like has found this pile of poop,

it was incredible just how quickly they came onto this ploy.

Within like minutes, this hitting the ground, they were here.

I mean, if you consider just how nutrient rich it is, and then almost a broken down form,

the dung beetles they'll make a nice bowl of it and kind of rode it off to they burrow in and

lay their eggs in it.

You can just roll with us.

Are you in the dung beetle fan club?

Yeah. Dung beetles are the best. They're the best can confirm.

This is like a, like a stinky gold rush, finding a pilot poo liked this. I mean,

there's water nutrients and these is crucial stuff in a place like this, where competition

for resources can be so fierce, right? And these beetles, they battled brutally on this

bounty from a [inaudible 00:03:00]. It's a brutal bounty beetle battle.

There's battles going on this dung pile of beetles,

fighting other beetles to get the best spot with the freshest wettest, elephant poop,

and who wouldn't want to fight over this. We should watch our backs. There might be

other people out here with cameras that want this pile [crosstalk 00:03:18] .

You know, this is valuable stuff. So

These dung beetles scoop their shovel like heads through this stinky motherload

gathering armfuls of poop, like farmers harvesting their crops

and then using their incredibly muscular legs to mold and mash it into a ball.

Perfect for rolling home. But you got to get home fast because other beetles, they want that dung.

Watch out for Beetle, dung bandits.

So here is the problem. These dung beetles have to solve.

How do they find the quickest route home in the straightest line?

You know, that's a really good question because

we're surrounded by tall grass. So how do you know which way to go?

Yeah. I mean to us, grass is only knee or waist high, but to a dung beetle,

it's like being stuck in the forest. There are no landmarks. I mean, I would be totally lost.

Humans are actually famously bad at this. You drop people in the wilderness with no

navigational aids. They'll just walk around in circles. Figuring a straight

path. Home is really hard unless.

Obviously they carry teeny-tiny campuses.

Actually.

But I mean, if you look up and some things that you can use to navigate.

like a universal compass.

Exactly.

So their eyes they're super tiny, right? But they are highly specialized for picking up the

position and the height of the sun in the sky. And it gets even better. If the sun is hidden,

like it's behind a cloud or something, their eyes can even pick up on patterns of polarized light,

like how light waves spin. And they can even use that

for navigation. That's going to be the most Unique astronomy skill I've ever heard.

Poop navigation.

Poop navigation, well done. Dung beetles, poop navigators, smelly astronomers.

They push for a little bit, head down, legs kicking. Then they pop up on top of

their dung ball and they do this little dance turning around to sense the pattern of light

got their directions back down, push, pop up, dance, navigate, push, dance, navigate,

and just keep repeating that all the way home. It's so cute. And they're very Good at it.

I never thought I would say this about a beetle that literally spends its whole life

push a poop around, but that's pretty cute and dance like me at a wedding.

These beetles are super strong. I mean, those have dung balls could

be like 50, a 100 times their body weight. I don't care. Push it right up a mountain.

They never skipped leg day or exoskeleton day.

What's the equivalent of a hundred times

our body weight. If we were like pushing around a couple of trucks,

But now tell me, so you've got these species that are active during the day,

but you also have species of dung people that are active at night.

Ooh, good question, turning the tables on you, Mr. Scientist.

It is a good question. So there are other species of dung beetles that are only active

at night. I mean, dung harvesting is a 24 hour business. Okay? But these beetles,

this is going to blow your mind.

They're doing the same thing, but they're just using different cues from the sky. They actually

see the Milky way. They use the band of the Milky way

through the sky as a way to orient themselves back to their burrows. Absolutely incredible.

Wait, do they actually see the stars?

So their eyes are probably too small to actually see the individual stars,

but get this scientists actually put dung beetles inside of a planetarium.

And they realized that they were using the band of the Milky way in the sky to navigate

Home. I would not want to clean the carpet at the planetarium after that visit,

I would want to narrate the show.

Do you think there are astrologists.

Reading a constellations?

Yeah.

Poop is in Leo today. I'm more of a Gemini poop guy.

Scientists have done all kinds of hilarious and creative things to figure this out. I mean,

blindfolding dung beetles, like putting mirrors around them,

putting them planetariums. This is crazy.

I Want to see the blindfold, honestly. That's amazing.

I mean, they're like a little like index card cutouts. They like taped to their

heads. It's a ridiculous,

Do they need any interns? Because I am there.

Sign her up. We know it might be a little weird, but we've uncovered something so

cool out of it. I mean, this is the only insect that I know of that can see our galaxy. I mean,

that's wild, but I think it's a really cool connection there. Evolution frickin rules.

Totally does.

Dude evolution.

All I need in life is a big ball of poo and some sick waves. I

Don't have any brothers, but I feel like working

with you guys is the closest I've ever been to having experienced.

I'm sorry.

I feel kind of like, like touched by that

They may live in poop, but these are amazing little creatures.

Galaxy Gazing beetles. Incredible. But they aren't the only bugs

that can sense things at the edge of what is physically possible. These bugs are straight fire.

Do the kids still say that Trace?

I don't Know if that's what the kids say. I'm not cool, but fire is cool.

And to understand what I'm talking about, we got to go to Berkeley, California.

It's not often that you are alone in a giant stadium all by yourself.

Some say it's haunted.

Echo. So, In the early 1940s, this stadium was here. It looked exactly the same as it

does now. Still have the bleachers still have the field, still had the trees up around it.

Out of those trees is where our story starts. It's like hearing my own voice inside my own head.

So picture this, It's the 1940s. You're having a great time. You're here with your friends,

enjoying yourself. And then all of a sudden out of the trees, you hear this giant swarm and you don't

know where it's coming from. And then they're everywhere and they're just bitting people.

But why would this happen? Because those beetles are fire chaser beetles or charcoal beetles.

Why would you let this? I need more information,

Fire beetles. What even is that?

They seek out burned wood as part of their natural life cycle. And even though

they swarmed Berkeley stadium in the 40's, they're still around today, biting people,

fighting wildfires and brush fires. And as to why they would descend on the stadium,

picture it like most places in the 1940s it's filled with people Smoking.

Oh, right? Like Humphrey Bogart. Let me tell you a kid there's beetles here.

They didn't teach me that in health class

Kids don't smoke. You're going to get attacked by a swarm of beetles.

Swarm of these fire Chaser Beetles descend upon the stadium. They're chasing the firesticks.

Okay, wait, do they like lay their eggs in fire? Like dragons or something?

I mean, kind of they're Called fire bugs or fire chasers because they literally

got to lay their eggs next to burning embers. The fire has wiped out all the competition in

an area. So like a YouTube comments section, the Beetles are there first

and their larva can eat the wood before any other competition gets there.

That is just so metal.

Yeah. And when I say swarm, I mean it, after a forest fire in Germany,

an area of three football fields was estimated to contain at least 300,000 larva.

What that's so extreme.

There first described by entomologists after brush fires and on oil fires,

but are also seen another hot places like walking on pipes that are too hot to touch

in sugar factories and on logs that are smoldering after campfires, they get so hot from their

escapades that their little tiny bodies, if they land on human skin can cause burns.

What that's like super extreme.

It's incredible story. And it really got us intrigued one. How did they know that all these

people were here smoking? Could they sense it? And two, could they sense the heat that

was coming from those cigarettes? Or was it just the smoke? It might be that they could do both.

So I popped across the bay into San Francisco to find Out. So we're here at the California Academy

of Sciences. They're going to show us some fire chaser beetles that they have in their specimen

archives, But on my way to meet up with our expert, I, to Joe found my way to Africa.

Ah, this is going to be great.

Ooh. Okay, Mr. Cool.

The animals were really Easy to take pictures with very still. It was, you know, done this before.

Zebras, Joe. You're not the only one who got to see wildlife, new kill that's why? What are you

doing up there? Kitty cat, Joe going all the way to Tanzania. You didn't get this close, Joe. Wow.

So pretty. I think I caught this one in animal crossing. Whoa. Hi.

Very funny. Probably smelled better too. Whatever.

Eventually I met up with Christopher Grantor, the collection manager of entomology.

So how many species are down here? This is huge.

We have hundreds of Thousands of species in the collections

with over 15 million insects from all over the world.

That is wild. These are cool. I need one of these for my house. Where are our beetles?

We've got them right here.

Whoa. This is so cool.

These little guys and are a variety of different colors.

Some are black, some have spots. Some are iridescent green.

They are so small. I guess I didn't expect something so powerful to be so tiny.

How Far away can they sense fire?

Well, Actually that was the question that I

asked the entomologists because we had them in the Hot seat.

I get it.

Tell me Everything. How do these beetles do their thing?

Well, they, they Have an amazing ability

to sense fires from a huge distance away. And they do that with several sensory structures,

The Beetles can sense smoke in the air with their antennae and they have tiny sensors on the sides

of their bodies under the wings that let them sense infrared radiation from heat. And these are

incredible. They're basically little fluid covered hairs in a pocket. The fluid expands and contracts

with the heat. And they sense that and follow the sensation. It's not too dissimilar to how we have

fluid covered hairs in our ears telling us which way is up, but there's this way cooler or hotter.

So as they fly the sensory pits, they kind of face forward so that they're able to triangulate

the smoke in the fire in the distance and make a B to align for it. But it's a balancing act.

They want to get there soon enough to beat the competition, but not so soon that they

waste energy flying around and waiting for the fire to die down. They want to land on

charred wood, not wood, that's on fire. And that is a life or death decision

if they do it right, they breed. And if they do it wrong, they get cooked. Just like with

the dung beetles, these extreme senses are all about resources, passing on genes and breeding.

Yeah. So as soon as those eggs are laid on or under the bark, the little larva will emerge from

the egg and burrow into the wood and they'll spend the next year feeding on the inside of the tree.

So They get like a little buffet.

Exactly.

Wow. That's nice. Very romantic. So then like a little smoldering wood, you know, a little wine.

Yeah. They'll mature slowly throughout the year and in the spring or summer of the next year,

they'll emerge and be ready to look for the next forest fire.

How these beetles detect fire from far away is still being studied by scientists,

working on biomimicry. These are people who base technological inventions on things

invented by nature. If the studies are right, these beetles beat every human technological

IR detector on the market, in terms of sensitivity, they have been spotted in fires,

a hundred kilometers. It's from their homes.

Wait, that's like 62 miles. Something that small.

Yes. Thank you. It's like me standing in

England and sensing a fire across the English channel in Northern France.

There is a fire in Normandy. I should go there. Lay some eggs in it.

We're talking radio telescope level sensitivity. This detection

is at the limit of what is physically possible though. I should say, entomologists are still

debating the exact distances and how they do it. More research is needed as I like to say,

but I have one last point. Dung and fire have a lot in common because neither are super pleasant,

but both are an important part of the ecosystem. And both are examples

of where there's a resource to be exploited, be it energy or nutrients or water or shelter

for your babies, or, you know, whatever that is. There's usually something that's

evolved to take advantage of that resource, no matter how rare it is,

That's especially true where there's competition, right? I mean these extreme senses, they evolved

and let these species do what they do better than any of their competitors out there. Right? I mean,

without dung and without fire, they couldn't do what they do in their little beetle Lives.

You could say without those resources, they would have a hard day's night.

Oh, that was a beetle joke.

You can get it cause the beetle with an a, but instead of the double e.

They're working overtime.

It's been an arduous Twilight and I've been toiling...

I think we got a future in Liverpool.

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Out here in the Wild West at the  Serengeti, its no place for the weak, ここ西部開拓時代のセレンゲティは、弱者のための場所ではない、 Hier in het Wilde Westen bij de Serengeti, het is geen plaats voor de zwakken, 在塞伦盖蒂的狂野西部,这里没有弱者的容身之地,

you might strike it rich, but watch your  thorax. There's bandits everywhere. Ready Du könntest reich werden, aber pass auf deinen Thorax auf. Überall gibt es Banditen. Bereit you might strike it rich, but watch your thorax. There's bandits everywhere. Ready puede que te hagas rico, pero cuidado con el tórax. Hay bandidos por todas partes. Listo 一攫千金を狙うなら、胸に気をつけろ。山賊はどこにでもいる。準備完了 je zou het rijk kunnen maken, maar let op je borstkas. Er zijn overal bandieten. Klaar Вы можете разбогатеть, но следите за своей грудной клеткой. Везде бандиты. Готовый 你可能会发财致富,但要注意你的胸部。到处都是土匪。准备好

to steal what you worked hard for I'm not  talking about gold. I'm talking about poop. |||||||||||||||Mist um dir das zu stehlen, wofür du hart gearbeitet hast. Ich spreche nicht von Gold. Ich spreche von Scheiße. あなたが一生懸命働いたものを盗むために......私は金の話をしているのではない。ウンコの話だ。 украсть то, ради чего ты тяжело работал, я не говорю о золоте. Я говорю о какашках.

What is happening? Was passiert gerade? 何が起こっているのか?

I can explain guys. I brought a  story today about one of my all-time, Puedo explicarlo chicos. Hoy he traído una historia sobre uno de mis todos los tiempos, みんなに説明しよう。今日は、あるオールタイムの話を持ってきたんだ、

favorite subjects. You're not  going to believe what this is. 好きなテーマこれが何なのか信じられないだろう。

Oh my God. I also brought a story about  one of my all-time, favorite subjects. なんてことだ。私の大好きな話題のひとつも持ってきた。

Same time one, two, three, extreme senses. El mismo tiempo uno, dos, tres, sentidos extremos. 同じ時間、1、2、3、極端な感覚。

Extreme senses. Extreme Sinne. 極端な感覚。 Экстремальные чувства.

How long did it take you to practice that one? その練習にはどれくらい時間がかかった?

I was born this way. Oh, you mean counting to  three? I've been doing that for a long time. Yo nací así. ¿Te refieres a contar hasta tres? Llevo haciéndolo mucho tiempo. 僕はこうやって生まれたんだああ、3つ数えるってこと?ずっとそうしてきたんだ。 Я родился таким. О, ты имеешь в виду считать до трех? Я делаю это уже давно.

Emily. I think you're going to like  this for a completely different reason エミリーまったく違う理由で、あなたはこれを気に入ると思うわ。

because of where our story starts. というのも、私たちの物語はここから始まるからだ。

It's amazing an ecosystem as rich  and diverse as the Serengeti, セレンゲティのように豊かで多様な生態系は素晴らしい、

you know what the most important valuable  resource in this entire ecosystem is? この生態系全体で最も重要な貴重な資源が何か知っているか?

One is right here. ひとつはここだ。

Steaming hot pile, fresh elephant dump. Pila caliente humeante, vertedero de elefantes frescos. 蒸し暑い山、新鮮な象のダンプ。 Stomende hete stapel, verse olifantenstortplaats. Дымящаяся горячая куча, свежая слоновья свалка.

I'm intrigued. |neugierig 興味をそそられるね。

Ah, It's a beautiful sight. ああ、美しい光景だ。

It is. I mean, how fresh do you think this is. そうだよ。どれだけ新鮮だと思う?

within the hour? 時間以内?

Yeah. Do you reckon? |||glaubst du Sí. ¿Te parece? そうだね。どう思う?

Ew. What is he doing. Ew (1)|||| うわぁ。彼は何をしているんだ。

Okay, we'll talk about that later. I  have a little hand sanitizer in my bag. それについては後で話そう。バッグの中に手指消毒剤が少しあるんだ。

I mean, I can tolerate a lot of gross  stuff, but even I have my limit. ||||||||ekelhaftem||||||| グロいのは我慢できるけど、限界はある。 Я имею в виду, что могу терпеть много грубых вещей, но даже у меня есть предел.

So The number one cool thing that we saw that  day was this awesome Bull Elephant. And the ||||||||||||||Bulle||| Lo primero que vimos ese día fue un impresionante elefante macho. Y el その日、私たちが見たものの中で一番クールだったのは、この素晴らしいブル・エレファントだった。そして Так что самой крутой вещью, которую мы увидели в тот день, был этот удивительный слон-бык. И

number two coolest thing we saw that day was that  number two. I mean, elephants impressive at both その日、私たちが見た最もクールなもののナンバー2。つまり、両方で印象的だった象 номер два Самая крутая вещь, которую мы видели в тот день, была номер два. Я имею в виду, слоны впечатляют в обоих

ends. It got to tell ya, but we also, weren't  the only ones who found that special Present. termina. Tengo que decírtelo, pero tampoco fuimos los únicos que encontramos ese regalo especial. 終了。言っておくけど、特別なプレゼントを見つけたのは僕らだけじゃないよ。

I mean, this is swarming. It's swarming with flies ||||wimmelnd||wimmelt|| Esto es un enjambre. Es un enjambre de moscas つまり、これは大群だ。ハエが群がっている Я имею в виду, это роение. Он кишит мухами

ants. Like every bug in the Serengeti,  I feel like has found this pile of poop, ||||||Serengeti||||||||| アリだ。セレンゲティのすべての虫と同じように、私はこのウンコの山を見つけたような気がする、 муравьи. Как и любой жук в Серенгети, я чувствую, что нашел эту кучу какашек,

it was incredible just how  quickly they came onto this ploy. ||||||||||Taktik Es war unglaublich, wie schnell sie diesen Trick durchschaut haben. fue increíble lo rápido que descubrieron esta estratagema. 彼らがこの策略に気づいたのは、信じられないほど早かった。 het was ongelooflijk hoe snel ze op deze truc kwamen. просто невероятно, как быстро они наткнулись на эту уловку.

Within like minutes, this hitting  the ground, they were here. En cuestión de minutos, esto golpear el suelo, que estaban aquí. 数分もしないうちに、彼らはここに到着した。

I mean, if you consider just how nutrient rich  it is, and then almost a broken down form, Si tenemos en cuenta lo rica en nutrientes que es, y además casi descompuesta, つまり、どれだけ栄養が豊富か、そしてほとんど分解された形になっているかを考えればいい、 Я имею в виду, если учесть, насколько он богат питательными веществами, а затем почти в разложенном виде,

the dung beetles they'll make a nice bowl of it  and kind of rode it off to they burrow in and ||||||||||||||||||graben|| die Mistkäfer machen eine schöne Schale daraus und rudern sie dann irgendwie weg, um sich einzugraben und los escarabajos de estiércol que van a hacer un buen plato de ella y el tipo de montó fuera de ellos madriguera en y フンコロガシは、そのボウルをいい具合に盛り上げ、その中に潜り込んでいく。 навозные жуки сделают из него прекрасную миску и как бы ускакали, чтобы зарыться в нее и

lay their eggs in it. その中に卵を産む。

You can just roll with us. Puedes rodar con nosotros. 僕らと一緒に転がればいい。 Вы можете просто кататься с нами.

Are you in the dung beetle fan club? ¿Estás en el club de fans del escarabajo pelotero? ダンゴムシのファンクラブに入っていますか?

Yeah. Dung beetles are the best.  They're the best can confirm. そうだね。糞虫は最高だ。彼らは最高の確認ができる。 Ага. Жуки-навозники самые лучшие. Они лучшие могут подтвердить.

This is like a, like a stinky gold rush,  finding a pilot poo liked this. I mean, ||||||||||||Pionierkot|||| Esto es como una, como una apestosa fiebre del oro, encontrar un piloto caca le gustaba esto. Quiero decir, これはまるで、臭いゴールドラッシュのようだ。つまり、 这就像,就像一场臭淘金热,发现了一个像这样的飞行员便便。我是说,

there's water nutrients and these is crucial  stuff in a place like this, where competition hay nutrientes del agua y estas son cosas cruciales en un lugar como este, donde la competencia 水の栄養分があり、これらは競争の激しいこのような場所では非常に重要なことなのだ。

for resources can be so fierce, right? And  these beetles, they battled brutally on this 資源は獰猛なものだからね。そしてこのカブトムシたちは、この上で残酷な戦いを繰り広げた。

bounty from a [inaudible 00:03:00].  It's a brutal bounty beetle battle. Kopfgeld von einem [unhörbar 00:03:00]. Es ist eine brutale Kopfgeld-Käfer-Schlacht. recompensa de un [inaudible 00:03:00]. Es una brutal batalla de escarabajos recompensa. 聞き取り不能 00:03:00]からの懸賞金。残酷な賞金首争奪戦だ。 来自 [听不清 00:03:00] 的赏金。这是一场残酷的赏金甲虫之战。

There's battles going on  this dung pile of beetles, このカブトムシの糞の山では戦いが繰り広げられている、

fighting other beetles to get the best spot  with the freshest wettest, elephant poop, 最も新鮮で湿った象のフンのある最高の場所を得るために、他のカブトムシと戦う、 сражаясь с другими жуками, чтобы занять лучшее место с самыми свежими мокрыми, слоновьими какашками,

and who wouldn't want to fight over this.  We should watch our backs. There might be そして、誰がこのことで争いたくはないだろう。私たちは背後を警戒すべきだ。もしかしたら

other people out here with cameras that  want this pile [crosstalk 00:03:18] . カメラを持っている他の人たちは、この山を欲しがっている [crosstalk 00:03:18] 。

You know, this is valuable stuff. So これは貴重なものなんだ。だから

These dung beetles scoop their shovel  like heads through this stinky motherload |||graben||Schaufelartigen||||||Mutterladung تغرف خنافس الروث هذه مجارفها مثل رؤوسها من خلال هذه الحمولة النتنة Estos escarabajos peloteros meten sus cabezas como palas en esta apestosa carga madre... この糞虫たちは、シャベルのような頭で、この悪臭を放つ母乳をすくい取る。 Deze mestkevers scheppen hun schop als koppen door deze stinkende moedervracht Эти навозные жуки черпают свои лопаты, как головы, через эту вонючую мать

gathering armfuls of poop, like  farmers harvesting their crops recogiendo brazadas de caca, como los granjeros recogiendo sus cosechas 農作物を収穫する農夫のように、腕一杯のウンコを集める собирая охапки какашек, как фермеры собирают урожай

and then using their incredibly muscular  legs to mold and mash it into a ball. ||||||||formen|||||| y luego usando sus piernas increíblemente musculosas para moldearlo y aplastarlo en una bola. а затем, используя свои невероятно мускулистые ноги, слепить из него шар.

Perfect for rolling home. But you got to get home  fast because other beetles, they want that dung. 家に持ち帰るには最適だ。でも、早く家に帰らないと、他のカブトムシがその糞を欲しがるから。

Watch out for Beetle, dung bandits. ビートル、糞賊に気をつけろ。 Остерегайтесь Жука, навозных бандитов.

So here is the problem. These  dung beetles have to solve. ||||||||||das Problem lösen Hier ist also das Problem. Diese Mistkäfer haben zu lösen.

How do they find the quickest  route home in the straightest line? どうやって最短距離で帰れるルートを見つけるのか? Hoe vinden ze de snelste route naar huis in de meest rechte lijn?

You know, that's a really good question because 本当にいい質問だね。

we're surrounded by tall grass. So  how do you know which way to go? 私たちは背の高い草に囲まれている。どっちに行けばいいか、どうやってわかるの?

Yeah. I mean to us, grass is only knee  or waist high, but to a dung beetle, 私たちにとって草は膝や腰の高さしかないが、ダンゴムシにとってはそうだ、

it's like being stuck in the forest. There are  no landmarks. I mean, I would be totally lost. het is alsof je vastzit in het bos. Er zijn geen oriëntatiepunten. Ik bedoel, ik zou helemaal verloren zijn.

Humans are actually famously bad at this.  You drop people in the wilderness with no 人間は実はこれが苦手なことで有名だ。何もない荒野に人を落とす。 Люди на самом деле очень плохи в этом. Вы бросаете людей в пустыне без

navigational aids. They'll just walk  around in circles. Figuring a straight ayudas a la navegación. Sólo caminarán en círculos. Imaginar una recta 航行補助具だ。ぐるぐると歩き回るだけだ。まっすぐな навигационные средства. Они просто будут ходить кругами. Рисуем прямую

path. Home is really hard unless. パス。そうでない限り、家は本当に難しい。 путь. Дома действительно тяжело, разве что. 小路。回家真的很难,除非。

Obviously they carry teeny-tiny campuses. |||||Campus Offensichtlich haben sie winzig kleine Campusse. Obviamente llevan campus diminutos. 明らかに、彼らは10分の1ほどの小さなキャンパスを運んでいる。 Очевидно, что у них крошечные кампусы.

Actually.

But I mean, if you look up and some  things that you can use to navigate. Pero quiero decir, si usted mira hacia arriba y algunas cosas que usted puede utilizar para navegar. でも、調べればナビゲートしてくれるものもある。

like a universal compass. como una brújula universal. 万能コンパスのように。

Exactly.

So their eyes they're super tiny, right? But  they are highly specialized for picking up the だから、彼らの目は超小さいんでしょう?でも、彼らは

position and the height of the sun in the sky.  And it gets even better. If the sun is hidden, 位置と空の太陽の高さ。さらに良いことがある。太陽が隠れていれば

like it's behind a cloud or something, their eyes  can even pick up on patterns of polarized light, como si estuviera detrás de una nube o algo así, sus ojos pueden incluso captar patrones de luz polarizada, 彼らの目は偏光のパターンを拾うことができる、

like how light waves spin.  And they can even use that ||||drehen|||||| como el giro de las ondas de luz. E incluso pueden usar eso 光の波がどのように回転するかのようにね。そして、それを利用することもできる как кружатся световые волны. И они даже могут использовать это

for navigation. That's going to be the most  Unique astronomy skill I've ever heard. ナビゲーションのために。それは私が今まで聞いた中で最もユニークな天文学の技術になるだろう。

Poop navigation. うんこナビ。

Poop navigation, well done. Dung beetles,  poop navigators, smelly astronomers. うんこナビ、お見事。糞虫、うんこナビゲーター、臭い天文学者。

They push for a little bit, head down,  legs kicking. Then they pop up on top of Empujan un poco, con la cabeza hacia abajo y las piernas pataleando. Entonces aparecen en la parte superior de 頭を下げ、脚を蹴りながら少し押す。そして Они немного толкаются, опустив голову, брыкаясь ногами. Затем они появляются сверху

their dung ball and they do this little dance  turning around to sense the pattern of light そして、光のパターンを感知するために、後ろを振り向く。

got their directions back down, push, pop  up, dance, navigate, push, dance, navigate, プッシュ、ポップアップ、ダンス、ナビゲート、プッシュ、ダンス、ナビゲート、

and just keep repeating that all the way home.  It's so cute. And they're very Good at it.

I never thought I would say this about a  beetle that literally spends its whole life 文字通り一生を過ごすカブトムシについて、こんなことを言うとは思わなかった。

push a poop around, but that's pretty  cute and dance like me at a wedding. うんこを押しながら、結婚式で僕みたいに踊るのはかわいいね。

These beetles are super strong. I  mean, those have dung balls could ||||||||die||| このカブトムシは超強い。つまり、あの糞玉は

be like 50, a 100 times their body weight.  I don't care. Push it right up a mountain. 体重の50倍でも100倍でもいい。気にしない。山の上まで押し上げればいい。

They never skipped leg day or exoskeleton day. 彼らは脚の日も外骨格の日もサボらなかった。 Они никогда не пропускали день ног или день экзоскелета.

What's the equivalent of a hundred times その100倍とは? Что эквивалентно стократному 一百次相当于什么

our body weight. If we were like  pushing around a couple of trucks, 私たちの体重だ。もし私たちがトラックを何台も押し回すようなものだとしたら、 вес нашего тела. Если бы мы толкали пару грузовиков,

But now tell me, so you've got these  species that are active during the day, 日中に活動する種がいるんだろう? А теперь скажите мне, так у вас есть эти виды, которые активны в течение дня,

but you also have species of dung  people that are active at night. しかし、夜間に活動する糞人間もいる。 но у вас также есть виды навозных людей, которые активны ночью. 但也有一些在夜间活动的粪人。

Ooh, good question, turning the  tables on you, Mr. Scientist. おお、いい質問だ。科学者さん、逆転の発想だ。

It is a good question. So there are other  species of dung beetles that are only active ||||||||||||Käfer|||| いい質問だ。ダンゴムシには他にも、以下のような種がいる。

at night. I mean, dung harvesting is a 24  hour business. Okay? But these beetles, 夜にね。つまり、糞の採取は24時間営業なんだ。いいかい?でもこのカブトムシは ночью. Я имею в виду, что сбор навоза — это круглосуточный бизнес. Хорошо? Но эти жуки,

this is going to blow your mind. これはあなたの心を揺さぶるだろう。

They're doing the same thing, but they're just  using different cues from the sky. They actually やっていることは同じだが、空からの合図を使い分けているだけだ。実際には Они делают одно и то же, но используют разные сигналы с неба. Они на самом деле

see the Milky way. They use  the band of the Milky way ver la Vía Láctea. Utilizan la banda de la Vía Láctea 天の川が見える。天の川の帯を利用する zie de Melkweg. Ze gebruiken de band van de Melkweg увидеть Млечный путь. Они используют полосу Млечного Пути

through the sky as a way to orient themselves  back to their burrows. Absolutely incredible. ||||||||||||Bauten|| 巣穴に戻るための方向付けとして、空を飛ぶのだ。まったく信じられない。

Wait, do they actually see the stars? 待って、彼らは本当に星が見えるの?

So their eyes are probably too small  to actually see the individual stars, つまり、彼らの目は小さすぎて、実際に個々の星を見ることはできないのだろう、

but get this scientists actually put  dung beetles inside of a planetarium. しかし、科学者たちは実際にダンゴムシをプラネタリウムの中に入れたのだ。 maar laat deze wetenschappers mestkevers in een planetarium stoppen.

And they realized that they were using the  band of the Milky way in the sky to navigate وأدركوا أنهم كانوا يستخدمون شريط درب التبانة في السماء للتنقل そして、彼らは天の川の帯を使って航行していることに気づいた。

Home. I would not want to clean the carpet  at the planetarium after that visit, ホームあの後、プラネタリウムのカーペットは掃除したくない、 Дом. Не хотелось бы после этого визита чистить ковер в планетарии,

I would want to narrate the show. 番組のナレーションをやりたいくらいだ。 Я хотел бы рассказать о шоу.

Do you think there are astrologists. 占星術師がいると思う?

Reading a constellations? ||Sternbilder 星座占い?

Yeah.

Poop is in Leo today. I'm  more of a Gemini poop guy. 今日はウンチが獅子座にある。私はどちらかというと双子座のうんこ派。 Поуп сегодня во Льве. Я больше похож на Близнецов.

Scientists have done all kinds of hilarious  and creative things to figure this out. I mean, 科学者たちはこれを解明するために、あらゆる種類の愉快で創造的なことをしてきた。つまり、

blindfolding dung beetles, like  putting mirrors around them, ダンゴムシに目隠しをする、

putting them planetariums. This is crazy. プラネタリウムを置く。これはクレイジーだ。

I Want to see the blindfold,  honestly. That's amazing. Quiero ver la venda, de verdad. Es increíble. 正直、目隠しが見たい。すごいね。 Я хочу видеть с завязанными глазами, честно. Это восхитительно.

I mean, they're like a little like index  card cutouts. They like taped to their |||||||Indexkarte||Ausschnitte||||| Son como recortes de fichas. Ellos como pegado a su つまり、インデックスカードの切り抜きみたいなものなんだ。テープで Я имею в виду, они немного похожи на вырезки для каталожных карточек. Им нравится приклеиваться к их

heads. It's a ridiculous, 頭だ。バカバカしい、

Do they need any interns? Because I am there. ||||Praktikanten|||| インターンは必要ですか?私がいるからです。 Нужны ли им стажеры? Потому что я там.

Sign her up. We know it might be a little  weird, but we've uncovered something so サインを少し奇妙なことかもしれませんが、私たちはあるものを発見しました。

cool out of it. I mean, this is the only insect  that I know of that can see our galaxy. I mean, クールだ。銀河系を見ることができる昆虫は、私の知る限りこの昆虫だけだ。つまり

that's wild, but I think it's a really cool  connection there. Evolution frickin rules. でも、本当にクールなつながりだと思うよ。進化は素晴らしいルールだ。 dat is wild, maar ik vind het een heel coole connectie daar. Evolutie frickin regels. это дико, но я думаю, что это действительно крутая связь. Эволюция чертовы правила.

Totally does. まったくその通りだ。

Dude evolution. La evolución de los tíos. 進化している。

All I need in life is a big ball  of poo and some sick waves. I Todo lo que necesito en la vida es una gran bola de caca y algunas olas enfermas. I 人生に必要なのは、大きなうんちのボールと気持ちの悪い波だけなんだ。I

Don't have any brothers, but I feel like working 兄弟はいないけど、働きたい気分なんだ

with you guys is the closest I've  ever been to having experienced. con vosotros es lo más cerca que he estado de haberlo experimentado. 君たちと一緒にいることが、これまで経験したことのないような近さなんだ。

I'm sorry.

I feel kind of like, like touched by that そのことに感動したんだ。

They may live in poop, but these  are amazing little creatures. Sie leben zwar in Kacke, aber es sind erstaunliche kleine Lebewesen. 彼らはウンコの中で暮らしているかもしれないが、驚くべき小さな生き物なのだ。

Galaxy Gazing beetles. Incredible.  But they aren't the only bugs

that can sense things at the edge of what is  physically possible. These bugs are straight fire. que pueden sentir cosas al límite de lo físicamente posible. Estos bichos son fuego directo. 物理的に可能なギリギリのところで物事を感知することができる。これらの虫は直火だ。

Do the kids still say that Trace? ¿Los niños todavía dicen eso Trace? 子供たちは今でもトレースと言うのか?

I don't Know if that's what the kids  say. I'm not cool, but fire is cool. 子供たちがそう言うのかどうかは知らない。僕はクールじゃないけど、火はクールだ。

And to understand what I'm talking about,  we got to go to Berkeley, California. この話を理解するには、カリフォルニアのバークレーに行かなければならない。

It's not often that you are alone  in a giant stadium all by yourself. 巨大なスタジアムにたった一人でいることは滅多にない。

Some say it's haunted. |||heimgesucht Manche sagen, es spukt dort. Algunos dicen que está embrujada. 幽霊が出るという話もある。

Echo. So, In the early 1940s, this stadium  was here. It looked exactly the same as it エコー1940年代初頭、このスタジアムはここにあった。見た目は

does now. Still have the bleachers still have  the field, still had the trees up around it. |||||Tribünen|||||||||||

Out of those trees is where our story starts.  It's like hearing my own voice inside my own head.

So picture this, It's the 1940s. You're having  a great time. You're here with your friends,

enjoying yourself. And then all of a sudden out of  the trees, you hear this giant swarm and you don't 楽しんでいる。すると突然、木々の間から巨大な群れの音が聞こえてきた。

know where it's coming from. And then they're  everywhere and they're just bitting people. ||||||||||||beißen| それがどこから来るのか知っている。そして、どこにでもいて、人を噛むんだ。 weet waar het vandaan komt. En dan zijn ze overal en ze zijn gewoon mensen aan het bijten.

But why would this happen? Because those beetles  are fire chaser beetles or charcoal beetles. |||||Weil||||||||| Aber warum würde das passieren? Weil diese Käfer Feuerjagdkäfer oder Holzkohlekäfer sind. Pero, ¿por qué ocurriría esto? Porque esos escarabajos son escarabajos cazadores de fuego o escarabajos carboneros. しかし、なぜこのようなことが起こるのだろうか?そのカブトムシは火を追うカブトムシ、あるいは炭を追うカブトムシだからだ。 Maar waarom zou dit gebeuren? Omdat die kevers vuurjagers of houtskoolkevers zijn.

Why would you let this? I need more information, Warum würdest du das zulassen? Ich brauche mehr Informationen. ¿Por qué permites esto? Necesito más información, なぜこんなことをさせるのか?もっと情報が必要だ、

Fire beetles. What even is that? Feuerkäfer. Was ist das überhaupt? 火のカブトムシ。何それ?

They seek out burned wood as part of  their natural life cycle. And even though 彼らは自然のライフサイクルの一部として、燃やされた木材を探し求める。そして、たとえ Ze zoeken verbrand hout op als onderdeel van hun natuurlijke levenscyclus. En hoewel

they swarmed Berkeley stadium in the 40's,  they're still around today, biting people, 彼らは40年代にはバークレー・スタジアムに群がり、今日でも人を噛んでいる、

fighting wildfires and brush fires. And as  to why they would descend on the stadium, 山火事や火事の消火活動だ。そして、なぜ彼らがスタジアムに押し寄せたのかについては、次のように語っている、 bestrijden van bosbranden en bosbranden. En waarom ze naar het stadion zouden afdalen,

picture it like most places in the  1940s it's filled with people Smoking. imagen como la mayoría de los lugares en la década de 1940 está lleno de gente fumando. 1940年代の多くの場所と同じように、喫煙者で溢れている。

Oh, right? Like Humphrey Bogart. Let  me tell you a kid there's beetles here. |||Humphrey Bogart|Humphrey Bogart||||||||| ¿Ah, sí? Como Humphrey Bogart. Déjame decirte que aquí hay escarabajos. そうだろ?ハンフリー・ボガードみたいにね。子供に言っておくけど、ここにはカブトムシがいるんだ。

They didn't teach me that in health class No me enseñaron eso en clase de salud. 保健の授業では教えてくれなかった。

Kids don't smoke. You're going to  get attacked by a swarm of beetles. 子供はタバコを吸わないカブトムシの大群に襲われるぞ。

Swarm of these fire Chaser Beetles descend upon  the stadium. They're chasing the firesticks. ファイヤーチェイサービートルの大群がスタジアムに降臨。ファイヤースティックを追いかけている。

Okay, wait, do they like lay their eggs  in fire? Like dragons or something? 待って、火の中に卵を産むの?ドラゴンか何かみたいに?

I mean, kind of they're Called fire bugs  or fire chasers because they literally Ich meine, sie werden Feuerwanzen oder Feuerjäger genannt, weil sie buchstäblich Ik bedoel, ze worden een soort van vuurwantsen of vuurjagers genoemd omdat ze letterlijk...

got to lay their eggs next to burning embers.  The fire has wiped out all the competition in ||||||||Glut||||||||| tienen que poner sus huevos junto a brasas ardientes. El fuego ha acabado con toda la competencia en 燃えさかる火のそばに卵を産むようになったのだ。この火事で、稚魚の競争相手は一掃された。

an area. So like a YouTube comments  section, the Beetles are there first あるエリア。つまり、YouTubeのコメント欄のように、カブトムシが最初にそこにいるのだ

and their larva can eat the wood before  any other competition gets there. そしてその幼虫は、他の競合がそこに到達する前に木材を食べることができる。

That is just so metal. Das ist einfach so metallisch. Eso es tan metálico. まさにメタルだ。

Yeah. And when I say swarm, I mean  it, after a forest fire in Germany, そうだね。大群と言ったのは、ドイツの山火事の後だ、

an area of three football fields was  estimated to contain at least 300,000 larva. サッカー場3個分の面積に、少なくとも30万匹の幼虫が生息していると推定された。

What that's so extreme. 何がそんなに極端なんだ。

There first described by entomologists  after brush fires and on oil fires, 最初に昆虫学者によって報告されたのは牧草火災の後と油火災の後であった、

but are also seen another hot places like  walking on pipes that are too hot to touch pero también se ven otros lugares calientes como caminar sobre tuberías que están demasiado calientes para tocarlas しかし、触れるには熱すぎるパイプの上を歩くような、別の暑い場所でも見られる。

in sugar factories and on logs that are smoldering  after campfires, they get so hot from their |||||Stämmen|||glühend|||||||| en las azucareras y en los troncos que arden después de las hogueras, se calientan tanto por su 製糖工場やキャンプファイヤーの後にくすぶる丸太の上では、その熱でとても熱くなる。

escapades that their little tiny bodies,  if they land on human skin can cause burns. escapadas que sus diminutos cuerpos, si aterrizan en la piel humana pueden causar quemaduras. その小さな小さな体が人間の皮膚に着地すると、火傷を引き起こす可能性があるという逃避行。 escapades dat hun kleine lichaampjes, als ze op de menselijke huid terechtkomen, brandwonden kunnen veroorzaken.

What that's like super extreme. なんていうか、超極端なんだ。

It's incredible story. And it really got us  intrigued one. How did they know that all these Es ist eine unglaubliche Geschichte. Und sie hat uns wirklich neugierig gemacht. Woher wussten sie, dass all diese 信じられないような話だ。そして、私たちは本当に興味をそそられた。なぜ、彼らはこのような

people were here smoking? Could they sense  it? And two, could they sense the heat that ここでタバコを吸っていたのだろうか?彼らはそれを感じることができたのだろうか?そして2つ目は

was coming from those cigarettes? Or was it just  the smoke? It might be that they could do both. タバコの煙が原因なのか?それとも煙だけ?両方かもしれない。

So I popped across the bay into San Francisco to  find Out. So we're here at the California Academy ||||||||San Francisco|||||||||| Así que crucé la bahía de San Francisco para averiguarlo. Así que estamos aquí en la Academia de California というわけで、サンフランシスコ湾を横断してサンフランシスコまで行ってみた。カリフォルニア・アカデミー Dus ik dook over de baai naar San Francisco om erachter te komen. Dus we zijn hier bij de California Academy

of Sciences. They're going to show us some fire  chaser beetles that they have in their specimen der Wissenschaften. Sie werden uns einige Feuerlaufkäfer zeigen, die sie in ihrer Sammlung haben.

archives, But on my way to meet up with our  expert, I, to Joe found my way to Africa. archivos, Pero en mi camino a reunirse con nuestro experto, Yo, a Joe encontró mi camino a África. しかし、専門家に会いに行く途中、私はジョーにアフリカへの道を見つけた。

Ah, this is going to be great. ああ、これはすごいことになりそうだ。

Ooh. Okay, Mr. Cool. おお。オーケー、ミスタークール。

The animals were really Easy to take pictures with  very still. It was, you know, done this before. Los animales eran realmente fácil de tomar fotos con muy quieto. Se hizo esto antes. 動物たちはじっとしていて、写真を撮るのが本当に簡単だった。前にもこんなことがあった。

Zebras, Joe. You're not the only one who got to  see wildlife, new kill that's why? What are you Zebras|||||||||||||||||| Cebras, Joe. Usted no es el único que llegó a ver la vida silvestre, nuevo matar por eso? ¿Qué estás シマウマだよ、ジョー。野生動物を見ることができたのは君だけじゃないんだ。君は

doing up there? Kitty cat, Joe going all the way  to Tanzania. You didn't get this close, Joe. Wow. |||Katze||||||||||||||| そこで何を?子猫ちゃん、ジョーがタンザニアまで行ったよ。ここまで近づけなかったよ、ジョー。すごいな

So pretty. I think I caught this  one in animal crossing. Whoa. Hi. |||||||||||Wow| So hübsch. Ich glaube, den habe ich bei Animal Crossing erwischt. Wow. Hi. とても可愛い。これはアニマルクロッシングで捕まえたんだ。おっ。こんにちは。

Very funny. Probably smelled better too. Whatever. Muy divertido. Probablemente también olía mejor. Lo que sea. とても面白い。おそらく匂いも良くなっただろう。どうでもいいけど。

Eventually I met up with Christopher Grantor,  the collection manager of entomology. |||||Christopher Grantor|Grantor Christopher|||||Entomologie Uiteindelijk ontmoette ik Christopher Grantor, de collectiemanager van entomologie.

So how many species are down here? This is huge. では、ここには何種の生物がいるのだろうか?これは巨大だ。

We have hundreds of Thousands  of species in the collections

with over 15 million insects  from all over the world.

That is wild. These are cool. I need one of  these for my house. Where are our beetles? ワイルドだ。これはクールだ。僕の家にも欲しいな。カブトムシはどこ?

We've got them right here. ここにある

Whoa. This is so cool.

These little guys and are a  variety of different colors.

Some are black, some have spots.  Some are iridescent green. ||||||||irideszentes|

They are so small. I guess I didn't expect  something so powerful to be so tiny. Sie sind so klein. Ich habe wohl nicht erwartet, dass etwas so Starkes so winzig sein kann. とても小さいんだ。こんなにパワフルなものがこんなに小さいとは思わなかったよ。

How Far away can they sense fire?

Well, Actually that was the question that I

asked the entomologists because  we had them in the Hot seat. preguntó a los entomólogos porque los teníamos en la silla caliente. と昆虫学者に尋ねた。

I get it. わかったよ。

Tell me Everything. How do  these beetles do their thing? すべてを教えてこのカブトムシはどのように行動するのか?

Well, they, they Have an amazing ability

to sense fires from a huge distance away. And  they do that with several sensory structures, 遠くから火を感知する。そして、いくつかの感覚構造を使ってそれを行う、

The Beetles can sense smoke in the air with their  antennae and they have tiny sensors on the sides

of their bodies under the wings that let them  sense infrared radiation from heat. And these are

incredible. They're basically little fluid covered  hairs in a pocket. The fluid expands and contracts increíbles. Básicamente son pequeños pelos cubiertos de fluido en una bolsa. El fluido se expande y contrae 信じられない。これは基本的に、ポケットの中にある小さな液体で覆われた毛だ。液体は膨張と収縮を繰り返す

with the heat. And they sense that and follow the  sensation. It's not too dissimilar to how we have

fluid covered hairs in our ears telling us which  way is up, but there's this way cooler or hotter. pelos cubiertos de fluido en nuestras orejas que nos dicen qué camino es hacia arriba, pero hay este camino más fresco o más caliente.

So as they fly the sensory pits, they kind of  face forward so that they're able to triangulate Mientras vuelan por las fosas sensoriales, miran hacia adelante para poder triangular...

the smoke in the fire in the distance and make  a B to align for it. But it's a balancing act.

They want to get there soon enough to beat  the competition, but not so soon that they

waste energy flying around and waiting for  the fire to die down. They want to land on

charred wood, not wood, that's on fire.  And that is a life or death decision

if they do it right, they breed. And if they  do it wrong, they get cooked. Just like with ||||||züchten|||||||||||| si lo hacen bien, se reproducen. Y si lo hacen mal, se cuecen. Como ocurre con

the dung beetles, these extreme senses are all  about resources, passing on genes and breeding. ||||||||||||||Fortpflanzung

Yeah. So as soon as those eggs are laid on or  under the bark, the little larva will emerge from

the egg and burrow into the wood and they'll spend  the next year feeding on the inside of the tree. |||nagen||||||||||||||||

So They get like a little buffet.

Exactly.

Wow. That's nice. Very romantic. So then like a  little smoldering wood, you know, a little wine. ||||||||||glühende||||||

Yeah. They'll mature slowly throughout the year  and in the spring or summer of the next year,

they'll emerge and be ready to  look for the next forest fire.

How these beetles detect fire from far  away is still being studied by scientists,

working on biomimicry. These are people  who base technological inventions on things werken aan biomimicry. Dit zijn mensen die technologische uitvindingen op dingen baseren

invented by nature. If the studies are right,  these beetles beat every human technological |||Wenn (1)|||||||||| von der Natur erfunden. Wenn die Studien stimmen, übertreffen diese Käfer jede menschliche Technologie

IR detector on the market, in terms of  sensitivity, they have been spotted in fires, |Detektor||||||||||||| IR-Detektor auf dem Markt, was die Empfindlichkeit betrifft, wurden sie bei Bränden gesichtet, detector de infrarrojos del mercado, en términos de sensibilidad, han sido vistos en incendios, IR-detector op de markt, qua gevoeligheid, ze zijn gespot bij branden,

a hundred kilometers. It's from their homes. einehundert Kilometer. Es ist von ihren Wohnorten.

Wait, that's like 62 miles. Something that small.

Yes. Thank you. It's like me standing in

England and sensing a fire across the  English channel in Northern France.

There is a fire in Normandy. I  should go there. Lay some eggs in it.

We're talking radio telescope  level sensitivity. This detection

is at the limit of what is physically possible  though. I should say, entomologists are still

debating the exact distances and how they do  it. More research is needed as I like to say, debatiendo las distancias exactas y cómo lo hacen. Se necesita más investigación, como me gusta decir,

but I have one last point. Dung and fire have a  lot in common because neither are super pleasant,

but both are an important part of  the ecosystem. And both are examples

of where there's a resource to be exploited,  be it energy or nutrients or water or shelter

for your babies, or, you know, whatever  that is. There's usually something that's

evolved to take advantage of that  resource, no matter how rare it is, evolucionado para aprovechar ese recurso, por raro que sea,

That's especially true where there's competition,  right? I mean these extreme senses, they evolved

and let these species do what they do better than  any of their competitors out there. Right? I mean,

without dung and without fire, they couldn't  do what they do in their little beetle Lives.

You could say without those resources,  they would have a hard day's night. Se podría decir que, sin esos recursos, tendrían una noche dura. 可以说,如果没有这些资源,他们一天一夜都会很辛苦。

Oh, that was a beetle joke.

You can get it cause the beetle with  an a, but instead of the double e. 你可以得到它,因为甲虫带有一个 a,而不是双 e。

They're working overtime. ||Überstunden

It's been an arduous Twilight  and I've been toiling... Ha sido un arduo Crepúsculo y me he estado esforzando... Het is een zware Twilight geweest en ik heb gezwoegd...

I think we got a future in Liverpool. 我认为我们在利物浦有未来。