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First you and your partner track down a dead body.

Next, the two of you worked together to bear you and it's often many times the

work together to bury it and it's often many times the size of your own body.

If it starts to rot or you start to snack on this body, you'll have to cover the stench of

decomposition with your own anal secretions so that other hungry, desperate,

overworked parents don't come looking for your lunch and this all before

your kids are even born that is if you're a silphid beetle you're listening to Scientific Americans science quickly. I'm Emily Schwang.

So they're commonly called burying beetles.

And in England they're called Sexton beetles.

Sextans were people who buried the dead.

And that's what these beetles do.

Derek Sykes is the curator of insects and a professor of entomology at the University of

Alaska Fairbanks Museum of the North.

A study he and a colleague published in the Journal of Zoology explores the parental behavior of these

undertaking beetles. Yeah so they bury dead vertebrates like a dead bird or mouse and

they'll work together as a male female team to get it down underground

and they try to find it when it's really fresh, sometimes within hours of death, before

there's any noticeable smell to humans.

In his lab, Sykes opens a cabinet door and slides out a drawer filled with black and orange

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