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Removal of African elephants causes coextinction of dung beetles, study finds

Summary by ecotopical.com
A field experiment in Kenya shows that dung beetles disappear when the African elephants they depend on for their fecal food and shelter also vanish locally. This is the first time that coextinction, the disappearance of one species leading directly to the extinction of another species, has been demonstrated in a large-scale field experiment, according to a recent study. In 2008, the researchers built a set of 10,000-square-meter (2.4 acres) exc…
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ecotopical.com broke the news on Thursday, June 11, 2026.
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