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This tiny dung beetle is just doing the best he can! "The Elephant and the Termite" premieres Wednesday, November 3 at 8/7c on PBS. [VID: Dung beetle pushing a ball of dung twice its size up a termite mound. Transcript: The mound that the termites abandoned might not look much of a threat, but to a dung beetle, it's a mountain whose slopes are covered with pitfall traps. A dung beetle is a walnut-sized package of determination. But he is also upside-down pushing backwards, so he can't see where