Full of laugh-out-loud gross facts about the animal kingdom's smelliest subject!
Poop gets a bad rap, but it’s really very cool and useful. Animals use poop in many different ways: to trick predators and prey, send messages, feed themselves and their babies, build homes, mark their territories, and more. Young readers will discover why rabbits, hamsters, pigs and gorillas eat their own feces (gross!), why some ground-nesting birds circle their eggs with poop, and how caterpillars can build umbrellas made of poop to hide under. Perfect for young zoologists and fans of infotainment.
Dawn Cusick enjoys making science education fun for both kids and adults. In addition to writing children's animal behavior books, she is a college biology instructor. She is the author of ANIMAL TONGUES and BUG BUTTS, among others.
What’s In There? Believe it or not, an animal’s waste material is an ecosystem. Just like the ecosystems you’ve probably studied in school, there are living things (biotic) and nonliving things (abiotic) in animal poop, even after it leaves an animal’s body. Run for Your Life! When biologists looked at lion feces under microscopes, they were surprised to find chimpanzee fur. Generally, the fur of prey animals is not broken down in the predators’ digestive systems, and passes through their bodies in their poop. Look Close Animal feces can contain partially digested foods. If you look carefully at this elephant dung, you can see undigested grass.
Full of laugh-out-loud gross facts about the animal kingdom's smelliest subject!
Poop gets a bad rap, but it’s really very cool and useful. Animals use poop in many different ways: to trick predators and prey, send messages, feed themselves and their babies, build homes, mark their territories, and more. Young readers will discover why rabbits, hamsters, pigs and gorillas eat their own feces (gross!), why some ground-nesting birds circle their eggs with poop, and how caterpillars can build umbrellas made of poop to hide under. Perfect for young zoologists and fans of infotainment.
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Dawn Cusick enjoys making science education fun for both kids and adults. In addition to writing children's animal behavior books, she is a college biology instructor. She is the author of ANIMAL TONGUES and BUG BUTTS, among others.
What’s In There? Believe it or not, an animal’s waste material is an ecosystem. Just like the ecosystems you’ve probably studied in school, there are living things (biotic) and nonliving things (abiotic) in animal poop, even after it leaves an animal’s body. Run for Your Life! When biologists looked at lion feces under microscopes, they were surprised to find chimpanzee fur. Generally, the fur of prey animals is not broken down in the predators’ digestive systems, and passes through their bodies in their poop. Look Close Animal feces can contain partially digested foods. If you look carefully at this elephant dung, you can see undigested grass.
