What animal has the largest poop?

The largest animal poop in the natural world belongs to that of the blue whale. Each bowel movement of these enormous, magnificent creatures can be in excess of several hundred liters of excrement at a time!
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What animal poops out of mouth?

In 1880, the German zoologist Carl Chun suggested a pair of tiny pores opposite the comb jelly mouth might secrete some substance, but he also confirmed that the animals defecate through their mouths. In 1997, biologists again observed indigestible matter exiting the comb jelly mouth—not the mysterious pores.
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How big is the blue whales poop?

Also called ambergris, blue whales can expel over 200 liters of poop for each bowel movement.
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How big is an elephant poop?

It's a surprisingly small range, given that elephant feces have a volume of 20 liters, nearly a thousand times more than a dog's, at 10 milliliters. How can big animals defecate at such high speed?
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Is there an animal that doesn't poop?

#4 Animals That Don't Poop: Demodex mites

Demodex Mites only live for around two weeks, so they store waste without releasing it. These microscopic mites live in human hair follicles, specifically in the sebaceous and hair follicle glands of the face, in small numbers or individually.
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What animal has the cleanest poop?

Their mucky appearance gives pigs an undeserved reputation for slovenliness. In fact, pigs are some of the cleanest animals around, refusing to excrete anywhere near their living or eating areas when given a choice. Pigs are misunderstood in many ways.
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Which animal has the weirdest poop?

But these nine animals show that the rest of the critters on this planet doesn't always equate dung with disgust.
  • Sperm whales. ...
  • Face mites. ...
  • Orb-web spider. ...
  • Vultures. ...
  • Rhinos. ...
  • Caterpillars. eraphernalia_vintage/flickr/cc by 2.0. ...
  • Parrot fish. laradanielle/flickr/cc by 2.0. ...
  • Dung beetles. benhaeringer/flickr/cc by 2.0.
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How big is a dinosaur poop?

A coprolite is fossilized dung (or poop). Although coprolites can come from the feces of any animal, the most famous ones were produced millions of years ago by dinosaurs. The largest coprolite ever found was 17 inches long and almost seven inches wide.
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How much does a giraffe poop in a day?

Giraffe can live for at least 25 years. Giraffe can poo up to 15 kilograms a day. That is a lot of poo! grow older their ossicones grow straight, and after some more time they become part of the scull.
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How much poop is in the ocean?

That's roughly 1.65 billion tons of carbon flushed into the depths each year, and all those droppings are part of what makes the ocean the largest active carbon sink in the world.
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How big is a whale testicle?

It turns out that one fin whale testicle weighs around 7-8 kilos and is the size of a basketball. The fin whale is also called the finback whale, razorback or common rorqual and is the second largest animal after the blue whale, growing to 27,3 metres (89,5 ft) long and weighing nearly 74 tonnes.
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What animal poops cubes?

Humans may be fascinated by cubes, but only one animal poops them: the bare-nosed wombat. This furry Australian marsupial squeezes out nearly 100 six-sided turds every day—an ability that has long mystified scientists. Now, researchers say they have uncovered how the wombat intestine creates this exceptional excrement.
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What animal does not fart?

Share All sharing options for: Farts: which animals do, which don't, and why. Here's a mind-boggling fact: Almost all mammals fart, yet the sloth does not.
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What animal does not pee?

Birds convert nitrogen to uric acid instead: this is metabolically more costly but saves water and weight, as it is less toxic and doesn't need to be diluted so much. Birds therefore don't have a urethra, and don't pee - all waste leaves via the anus.
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Why is my poop green?

Food may be moving through the large intestine too quickly, such as due to diarrhea. As a result, bile doesn't have time to break down completely. Green leafy vegetables, green food coloring, such as in flavored drink mixes or ice pops, iron supplements. A lack of bile in stool.
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What animal poops the fastest?

For instance, an elephant defecates at a speed of six centimeters per second, nearly six times as fast as a dog. The speed of defecation for humans is in between: two centimeters per second.
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Do giraffes have 2 Hearts?

You surely know that humans and giraffes have just one heart, as most animals do—but not all. Octopuses and squids (animals called cephalopods) have three hearts. Two hearts pump blood to the gills to take up oxygen, and the other pumps blood around the body (Figure 1).
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How many pounds is elephant poop?

A typical African forest elephant's feces weigh as much as 6,000 pounds a day. The volume of their feces is about 15 kilograms. The poop of Asian elephants is significantly smaller, while that of African forest elephants is about 100 kilograms per day. Therefore, an average elephant poop weighs 300 pounds.
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What is dinosaur poop worth?

A collection of "naturally-colored fossil dung" featured by the auction house in May 2013 was priced at $2,500 to $3,500; it sold for $5,185, according to Chait. In 2008, a pile of dinosaur dung dating from the Jurassic era, estimated to be worth $450, sold for nearly $1,000 at Bonhams New York.
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Do we drink the same water that dinosaurs drank?

Yes. The water on our Earth today is the same water that's been here for nearly 5 billion years. Only a tiny bit of it has escaped out into space. As far as we know, new water hasn't formed either.
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Does anything not poop?

Are there any animals that don't poop? As a matter of fact yes there are: Tardigrades - These little alien-like critters only excrete when they molt. So any "fecal" matter produced it not really pooped out as we would really describe it.
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What animal has blue poop?

Pine marten poo

In summer, the scat can actually become blue in colour as bilberries can make up to 30 per cent of a pine marten's diet during this season. Like otter spraint, pine marten poo has a distinctive smell, though it lacks the fishy smell of spraint.
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What animal poops large round balls?

Rabbits and hares

Droppings are left in clusters of little, round, hard balls. They are usually yellowy-brown or green in colour, and full of grass. Hare droppings (on the right) tend to be slightly bigger and flatter than rabbit droppings (left hand side).
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