Dung Dynasty

The African savanna is a place wrought with conflict, where herbivores gather to feed during the rainy season and predators follow in their wake. But at ground level, there’s a much more complex battle underway. Here, two dung beetle families go head-to-head in a fight for the region’s most valuable resource...dung. See how the above-ground Roller family and the burrowing Digger family rely on—and fight over—the same dung supply, which they use for food, finding a mate, and breeding the next generation.