And we did side by side tests, and here you can see the charcoal briquettes and here the cow dung.

So you have less waste, and the waste that you have is not as environmental malign as it is with cow dung.

My mother still lives in a cow dung hut, none of my brothers are going to school, and this man told me, Here, go.

So, according to dung beetles, dung is pretty good.

Now I'm going to take you to a different continent. This is India, and this is the most commonly used cooking fuel in India it's cow dung.

In low income countries, burns are treated up to one third of the time with traditional medicine, which may include applications of eggs, mud, leaves or cow dung.

And more than in Haiti, this produces really smoky fires, and this is where you see the health impacts of cooking with cow dung and biomass as a fuel.

Imigongo , a unique cow dung art, is produced in the southeast of Rwanda, with a history dating back to when the region was part of the independent Gisaka kingdom.

She typically buys a cow. The cow gives milk.

Unless you're prepared to get dung under your fingernails and root through the dung itself, you'll never see 90 percent of the dung beetle species, because they go directly into the dung, straight down below it, and then they shuttle back and forth between the dung at the soil surface and a nest they make underground.

Within South Africa, we've got about 800 species of dung beetles, in Africa we've got 2,000 species of dung beetles, and in the world we have about 6,000 species of dung beetles.

They remove dung, they pollinate our crops.

Approach the cow.

And cow barns!

So before I had a chance to determine whether this was right or not, we had jumped the moat, we had climbed the fence, we were tiptoeing through the dung and approaching some poor, dozing cow.

T in Cow Fat Cow debuted as an independent mas band in 2009, inspired by the song T'in Cow by 3 Canal.

Marcus Byrne The dance of the dung beetle

We don't know yet what dung beetles use.

No dairy, no cow's milk, no cow cheese, no cow butter, no cow ice cream and no eggs, please have a seat.

Back to the cow.

You're not a cow.

Don't have a cow.

Tom milked the cow.

This is my cow.

It is my cow.

I milked the cow.

You milked the cow.

He milked the cow.

She milked the cow.

I have a cow.

Tom has a cow.

Where is the cow?

So this dung pat was actually well, it was a dung pat 15 minutes before this photograph was taken, and we think it's the intense competition that makes the beetles so well adapted to rolling balls of dung.

They are grown completely in a ball of dung.

This is a dung beetle. Watch what he's doing.

And his neighbor steals one of his dung pellets.

And it seems appropriate to start at the end, because this is a waste product that comes out of other animals, but it still contains nutrients and there are sufficient nutrients in there for dung beetles basically to make a living, and so dung beetles eat dung, and their larvae are also dung feeders.

I was like, Cow tipping?

Holy cow! That's just amazing.

Here, cowboy to a cow

A cow gives us milk.

Tom is milking the cow.

The cow gives us milk.

What I see is a cow about to eat something delicious. What is that cow eating?

Lola the cow, Lola the cow, she's smart and she brings trouble, and she goes mooooo.