Fascinating poop trivia (continued)

    Male Nile hippopotamuses perform a frightful territorial ritual: they square off backside to backside and shower each other with poop, slapping it about with their flapping tails, before separating and strolling away.

    DNA analysis of dog doo is now used  in a number of communities and apartment complexes to identify dogs whose poop hasn't been cleaned up by their owners. The company involved in the process is called PooPrints.

    Sloths, the world's laziest animals, poop only once a week, climbing down from their tree to defecate on the ground. They then cover it up . . . very slowly.

    Beaver, Oklahoma, calls itself the Cow Chip Capital of the World and claims to have held the very first organized cowpie fling competition in 1970.

    Young, elephants, koalas, pandas, and hippos eat the feces of their mothers or other animals in the herd to obtain the bacteria required to properly digest vegetation found on the savanna and in the jungle. When they are born, their intestines do not contain these bacteria (they are completely sterile). Without them, they would be unable to obtain any nutritional value from plants.
   
    • A Polish rap artist has commissioned a giant statue of dog doo and had it installed in a Wroclaw park. He hopes it will encourage his fans to clean up after their pets.


    The wombat is unique in the animal kingdom for producing cube-shaped poop. It's said to resemble very pungent dice.
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