Department of Sociobiology/Anthropology

Invertebrates

coprophagous
Scarabin dung beetles (Oxysternon sp.) are often heavily infested with mites.
(Foto: Eckhard W. Heymann)		 competition.
Two unidentified flies compete for the defecation of a tamarin.
(Foto: Eckhard W. Heymann)
CordycepsA beetle killed by Cordyceps mushrooms.
(Foto: Eckhard W. Heymann)		 katydid
Many katydids like this unidentified species are camouflaged but nevertheless are frequently consumed by tamarins
(see Nickle & Heymann 1996. J Zool, Lond 239:799-819)
(Foto: Eckhard W. Heymann)