Favorite animal dump + dump facts

Because elephants only digest 45% of their food, and their waste is mostly made up of fiber.

the Thai Elephant Conservation Center in Northern Thailand developed a method for making elephant dung into paper.

An elephant can generate enough dung to make over 100 pages of paper a day!

Llama poo has special pollution-fighting powers!

It helps clean the dirty water that comes from mines by diluting acid and removing dissolved metals.

One of the most expensive kinds of coffee is made from beans that are collected from a palm civet’s poop! It’s called kopi luwak.

During World War I soldiers used dried bat “guano” (another word for poo), to make explosives!

bat’s droppings consist largely of saltpeter (or potassium nitrate), a key ingredient in explosives and fireworks.

Some species of spiders like the bird dropping spider disguise themselves to look like poop to ward off predators

a bird called the double-banded courser even disguises its eggs to look like poop.

Hippos and penguins launch their poo!

To attract a mate, hippos use something that we like to call a rotor tail move, where they spin their tail to launch their poop under water.

Penguins also send their poo flying, but they do it to keep their beautiful feathers free from doo-doo!

Birds of prey, like Peregrine Falcons, tend to poop before take-off to lighten their load when flying!

There are some birds that will actually shape their poop into the form of an egg in order to reduce the risk that a predator will snatch the actual eggs.

The Australian Wombat has quite the funny shaped animal scat; it’s shaped like what appears to be a freshly baked loaf of bread.

Nightingale poop is used many expensive anti-wrinkle creams for your face.

The Capybara has a dual purpose poop mechanic. One type of poop that they excrete is green, soft, and filled with nutrients that other Capybara can consume later.

Horse stallions poop in the same location, making large piles of poop as a way of saying: “This area is mine, and you can’t have it.”

You can actually burn cow poop, either over a camp fire or even on a grill, to keep mosquitos and flies away.

Monkeys have a bit of a bad habit: They like to throw their poop at things. They originally developed this behavior as a defense mechanism, because who wants to get animal feces flung at them? No one, that’s who!

Pigeon poop, when in mass, can weigh quite a lot, even thousands of pounds. When an architects lays out the plans for their new building, the possibility of a thousand pounds of pigeon poop adding to the top-heaviness of their structure must be taken into account.

A common misconception about honey is that it is bee poop, but the truth is that honey is actually bee vomit.

Bee poop is actually just a mixture of the sugary nectar that they most commonly eat. In fact, some bee poop is present in the all natural honey that you find at your grocery store.

House flies are in a constant state of pooping.

Food goes in, is nearly instantly digested, and goes right back out.

Grossly enough, they are also in a nearly constant state of vomitting, since their frontal excrements are a way of pre-digesting food before they consume it.

If a fly lands on your arm, then it has already pooped and vomitted on you. Gross, right?

Cats have been known to poop outside of the litterbox just to show you how angry they are with you.

While pooping outside of the litterbox can sometimes indicate a health issue and should be looked into, sometimes it’s just because the little guy is mad and that’s a way of asserting dominance.

He’s showing you who’s boss, knowing that you’ll clean it up.

This one isn’t necessarily about animals, although “technically” it is, considering that humans are also part of the kingdom Animalia, which makes us animals, too.

When Neil Armstrong and his crew departed from the moon landing, they left behind four bags of poop, just sitting there on the moon’s surface. Yep, poop on the moon!

Cat tax. This is Ninou, my girlfriends family cat. She likes to eat flowers!

Edit: Poop sources
https://www.certapet.com/animal-poop-facts/
https://www.earthrangers.com/wildwire/top-10/top-ten-facts-all-about-animal-poop/