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Wombats make cube-shaped poop, thanks to unique intestines
ScienceMag.com ^
| Nov 20, 2018
| Frankie Schembri
Posted on 11/21/2018 2:49:28 PM PST by ETL
Wombats, short-legged, burrowing marsupials native to Australia, are the only animals known to produce cube-shaped feces.
Its long been speculated that wombats produce these poop bricks as a unique way of marking their territory.
Now, scientists have determined the likely causes of these unusual feces are the shape and flexibility of the wombats intestines, National Geographic reports.
Researchers inflated long balloons in the intestines of dead common wombats to measure the shape and flexibility and found two ravinelike grooves where the intestines were more elastic.
These grooves could form the poop into a solid cube just before it exits the wombat, the scientists reported over the weekend at the annual meeting of the American Physical Societys Division of Fluid Dynamics in Atlanta.
Next, the researchers say theyll investigate how only two intestinal grooves can extrude a cube, as opposed to fourone for each face except the top and bottom.
TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Science
KEYWORDS: australia; chitchat; cocktailhourchat; didnotneedtoknowthis; goodtoknow; poop; shitchat; smarteralready; sureyoudidlol; wombat
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To: ETL
Then why is human faces tapered?
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A: To prevent the top of your head from blowing off when your @$$h0!e slams shut.
To: lowbridge
Okay, for one million dollars, what shape is Wombat poo?
Hey, you never know.
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11/21/2018 3:15:00 PM PST
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ETL
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To: ETL
Wombats make cube-shaped poop...Oddly enough, mine comes out shaped like a wombat.
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posted on
11/21/2018 3:18:18 PM PST
by
Wissa
("Accidents don't happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult." - Michael Corleone)
To: ETL
If Trump ever decides to build a wall around San Francisco, he can use these for bricks, and save a few bucks.
To: alloysteel
They make great dice cubes!
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11/21/2018 3:23:12 PM PST
by
ETL
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To: FatherofFive
Back in grade school we would say:
Well sh*t a brick!!
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posted on
11/21/2018 3:23:15 PM PST
by
9422WMR
To: All
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posted on
11/21/2018 3:24:39 PM PST
by
ETL
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To: ETL
"Researchers inflated long balloons in the intestines of dead common wombats" You want me to do what?
Is it too late to get another thesis advisor?
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11/21/2018 3:27:25 PM PST
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ETL
(Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
To: ETL
This will be a good topic for Thanksgiving dinner conversation.
To: ETL
The articles says that these are to mark its territory. Does he wall in his territory? Build the wall, Mr. President (using wombat pop, perhaps?) 😉
To: ETL
Researchers inflated long balloons in the intestines of dead common wombats to measure the shape and flexibility and found two ravinelike grooves where the intestines were more elastic. "So, Joe, what sort of research have you been working on lately?"
To: ETL
Ok, that explains the intestine part.
It still has to come out. Are their exit points square too?
Who out there is willing to examine womba**holes?
And can animals be genetically modified to produce other interesting shapes?
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posted on
11/21/2018 3:47:41 PM PST
by
fruser1
To: ETL; Daffynition
Researchers inflated long balloons in the intestines of dead common wombats to measure the shape and flexibility... In case anyone has been wondering what Cousin Eddie has been up to of late..
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11/21/2018 3:55:13 PM PST
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Ezekiel
(All who mourn(ed!) the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
To: C210N
LOL! Yep. The only way to be sure is to throw massive amounts of money into studies. It’s for our own good. Just think of the world we will be leaving for our children...
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posted on
11/21/2018 3:56:03 PM PST
by
vpintheak
(Freedom is not equality; and equality is not freedom!)
To: ETL
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posted on
11/21/2018 3:59:59 PM PST
by
bgill
(CDC site, "We don't know. how people are infected with Ebola.")
To: ETL
Wait a minute. Maybe that’s why what I just put in the barbecue isn’t staying lit.
To: ETL
Not sure how grooves can make poop square. But given that the “poop chute” is grooved, I’ll have to assume the Wombat can poop more accurately with the rifling than if it was a simple smooth bore......
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11/21/2018 4:04:54 PM PST
by
Quickgun
(I got here kicking,screaming and covered in someone else's blood. I can go out that way if I have to)
To: ETL
"Researchers inflated long balloons in the intestines of dead common wombats to measure the shape and flexibility and found two ravinelike grooves where the intestines were more elastic." Now why didn't I think of that?
Oh, that's right, I don't have skads of money and time laying around!
Oh, and I'm sane too...'course that's just my opinion.
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11/21/2018 4:07:49 PM PST
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Eagles6
To: Songcraft
“If Trump ever decides to build a wall around San Francisco, he can use these for bricks, and save a few bucks. “
Hahahahah, that made me LOL the first time I read it, and made me LOL the 2nd time too.
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