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Why do wombats have cube-shaped poop? – Livescience.com
It’s not due to the shape of their “backdoor.”
When nature calls, wombats
poop out a masterpiece a pile of cubed-shaped BMs, the only animal known to do so. And now, scientists may finally know how wombats pull off this feat, according to a new study published online Thursday (Jan. 28) in the aptly named journal Soft Matter
.
The wombat, a small, tunneling marsupial that lives Down Under, has block-like poops because of the shape of its intestines, the international team of researchers found.
Previously, some researchers had incorrectly proposed…
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