Andrew J. Davis is the owner of the world's largest collection of dung beetles, housed in the Natural History Museum in London. He carried out extensive research on dung beetles in Borneo. ( University of Nebraska page) He is a teacher of biology at St Edward's School and completed his Ph.D at the University of Leeds.



His research has focused on the use of dung-feeding beetles (Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae, Scarabaeinae; Geotrupidae; Hybosoridae) as indicators of environmental disturbance. His work was centered on tropical forests in Malaysia, examining the community dynamics of dung-feeding beetles in primary and derived forest ecosystems. His particular interests include canopy communities where a new guild of arboreal dung beetles was found during work in northern Borneo, revealing a dung-rolling species of Onthophagus.

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