Africa is home to an astonishing diversity of wildlife. It is a continent with a plethora of landscapes and creatures, including a small, fascinating character that has formed relationships with some of the world's largest land animals. The industrious dung beetle lives in a world fraught with challenges. Moving virtual mountains in its quest to feed and breed and vital to the renewal of the land, it is nature's ultimate recycler. In ancient Egypt it was even considered to be a god that rolled the sun across the sky.