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Dung beetles do this too.

• gregsadetsky 3y ago
  that's nuts! "- African dung beetles orient to the starry sky to move along straight paths - The beetles do not orientate to the individual stars, but to the Milky Way" https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(12)01507-2 https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(12)... https://www.science.org/content/article/dung-beetles-navigate-milky-way https://www.science.org/content/article/dung-beetles-navigat...
  • CMCDragonkai 3y ago
    So you can see astrological events do affect us.
    • ozzmotik 3y ago
      s/log/nom/
• dylan604 3y ago
  As long as there's not too much light pollution. Fortunately for the dung beetles, their habitat isn't very urban. However, it's the little examples like this that make me a light pollution dork.