The God of Dung — A Dung Beetle's Life in the Himalayas

He was worshipped as a god by the ancient Egyptians. His name was Khepri. The embodiment of transformation. Of taking something worthless and making it the foundation of new life. He has no idea. He is currently on a Himalayan slope at 4,200 metres above sea level, pushing a ball of yak dung ten times his body weight, backwards, uphill, alone. He has been doing this for 30 million years. He has never once complained. This is his story. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHAPTERS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 0:00 The Ancient Egyptian Connection 0:37 Meet the Dung Beetle 0:51 Pushing the Limit: 10x Body Weight 1:18 Himalayan Hurdles 1:58 Temperature Regulation Trick 2:32 Survival: Chemical Warning & Camouflage 3:34 Evading Predators: The Crane & Scorpion 4:58 The Rivalry: Thievery on the Slopes 6:19 Navigating by the Milky Way 7:20 The Cycle of New Life 7:48 Khepri: The God of Transformation ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ MORE FROM BOHO ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Why It Sucks To Be An Ant Queen → • The Hidden Brutality of Becoming an Ant Qu... The Hidden World of the Modern Chicken → • The Hidden World of the Modern Chicken ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ If this beetle's life made you feel something — share it with someone who needs to hear it. #DungBeetle #Himalayas #NatureDocumentary