Professor Suzannah Williams wishes she didn’t have to spend her days analyzing poop samples. It’s a dirty job; but someone’s got to do it. Biodiversity is rapidly dwindling, with wildlife populations ...

In recent months, unusual wildlife behaviours have been trending across social platforms, especially topics that challenge what we normally expect from the natural world. One such behaviour that ...

Watching a snake poop may not be everyone’s idea of fun, but it can tell us a lot about snake digestion, which is a ...

A lot of things will lie to you in your life, but not poop. Close examination of animal scat will help you identify not only the species but how recently the animal was there, its sex, what it ate, ...

Teddy Roosevelt famously said “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” The folks at the Denver Zoo must have thought he was talking crap. The zoo happens to have a lot of animal dung on ...

Sometimes, dogs do strange things. Beyond rolling in mud puddles or biting themselves, your pet might drink from toilets or lick its butt. In other cases, it may eat its own poop or, worse, the poop ...

Etelka is a post-doctoral research fellow exploring aerosol science with biology and engineering.View full profile Etelka is a post-doctoral research fellow exploring aerosol science with biology and ...