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Parenting can seem a thankless gig.

First, you and your partner track down a dead body.

Next, the two of you work together to bury it,

and it's often many times the size of your own body.

If it starts to rod 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

sylphid beetle. You're listening to Scientific Americans

Science Quickly. I'm Emily Schweng. So they're commonly called burying beetles. And in England,

they're called sexton beetles. Sextons 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 buried 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

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