Wombats are the only animals whose poop is a cube. Here’s how they do it.
The elasticity of wombats’ intestines helps to shape their distinctive poops
By
Laurel Hamers
5:00pm, November 18, 2018
WOMBAT SCAT Wombats are stout marsupials, native to Australia. They use their cubelike droppings to mark their territory.
Of all the poops in the world, only wombats’ are shaped like cubes.
The varied elasticity of the wombat’s intestines helps the marsupials to sculpt their scat into cubelike nuggets, instead of the round pellets, messy piles or tubular coils made by other mammals, researchers reported November 18 at the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics meeting in Atlanta.
Wombats mark their territories with small piles of scat. Cuboid poops stack better than rounder ones, and don’t roll away as easily.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/how-wombats-poop-cubes
