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http://motherboard.vice.com/read/why-dung-beetles-dance-on-poop-theyre-mapping-the-sky-lund-university-south-africa
"Studying how insects navigate is important, said el Jundi, who wrote this paper with some of the same scientists who made the discovery that dung beetles can navigate by the light of the Milky Way. “What we do is basic science,” he continued, but it will have other applications down the road—for example, for engineers who are trying to build autonomous vehicles and robots, and ensure that they go in a straight line."