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EPISODE · Oct 29, 2018 · 3 MIN

How do wombats produce cube-shaped poo?

from Question of the Week, from the Naked Scientists · host Dr Chris Smith

Poo comes in many shapes and sizes. We are used to seeing it on the street or accidentally stepping in different forms including tubes from dogs, pellets from rabbits or big splats from cows, but I have never come across cubic poo. Tamsin Bell asked Dr Louise Gentle from Nottingham trent University to help us out with this stinker... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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