Scientists Learn Even More About Wombats and Their Beautiful Cubed Poop
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A wombat mother with her joey. (Image: P. Yang et al., 2021)
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The world makes more sense today, thanks to new research detailing the digestive processes responsible for the bare-nosed wombat’s incredible cube-shaped poop.
Nature can be so magical.
For reasons not entirely understood, the bare-nosed wombat (
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Behind the cute facade of a wombat is a mystery that had experts wondering for years. That is the mystery of what they literally leave behind.
Wombats are burrowing animals that live in Australia. These little rodent looking marsupials are famous for being quite adorable. They look like cute small plush animals that one can just snuggle around whenever they are feeling down. The cuteness of a wombat is undeniable, but that is not what made them the center of various scientific studies.
One does not need science to determine whether or not these animals are really cute. But, what made scientists interested in these animals is the odd shapes of their wastes. Wombats leave behind cube-shaped poops, and they re the only animals known to do so.
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An international team of scientists have been able to replicate how a wombat produces square poo – and it could change the way geometric products are manufactured in future.
Research published today in the Royal Society of Chemistry’s journal Soft Matter, expands on the discovery that wombat poo forms its distinctive shape within the wombat’s intestines, not at the point of exit as previously thought.
They have now discovered that the slow passage of the faeces and differing stiffness within the last 17 per cent of the intestines produces the square shape – before exiting via its round anus.
Physics of poop explained: It takes 12 seconds for all mammals including humans to defecate
Physics of poop explained: It takes 12 seconds for all mammals including humans to defecate
Have You Ever Thought How Much Time It Takes You To Defecate? Well, Thatâs Indeed A Weird Question But A New Study Has Revealed That All Mammals Including Humans, Cats And Elephants, Take Same Amount Of Time â About 12 Seconds â To Defecate.
News Nation Bureau | Edited By : Bindiya Bhatt | Updated on: 29 Apr 2017, 03:37:16 PM
New Delhi:
Have you ever thought how much time it takes you to defecate? Well, that’s indeed a weird question but a new study has revealed that all mammals including humans, cats and elephants, take same amount of time – about 12 seconds – to defecate. The physics of poop has thus been explained by the scientists.