Professor Marcus Byrne won the 2013 Ig Nobel Prize for Biology/Astronomy along with:

Marie Dacke Marie Ann-Charlotte Dacke is a professor of Sensory Biology, at the ''Lund Vision Group'' in Lund University, Lund, Sweden. Her research focuses on nocturnal and diurnal compass systems, using the dung beetle as a model organism. Dacke is a Wal ...

, Emily Baird, Clarke Scholtz, and Eric Warrant, for discovering that when dung beetles get lost, they can navigate their way home by looking at the

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. This research has practical applications, for example helping how to develop complex visual systems.Wits
"Marcus Byrne - entomologist"
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'', USA, unknown date. Retrieved on 6 October 2014.

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* *The Dance of the Dung Beetles https://archivewitspress.co.za/catalogue/dance-of-the-dung-beetles/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Byrne, Marcus Living people Alumni of the University of London South African entomologists South African zoologists Academic staff of the University of the Witwatersrand University of the Witwatersrand alumni Year of birth missing (living people)