Why Do Wombats Have Square Poop?

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New study finds square feces may deliver information.

New study finds square feces may deliver information.

Most people have a preferred way of communication — phone, text, email — but bare-nosed wombats have an unusual way of relaying information.

The Australian marsupial communicates by … there’s no delicate way to say this … poo.

Led by the University of Georgia’s Scott Carver, a new study published in the Journal of Zoology considers whether the marsupials from down under are communicating through the unusual scat that they deposit in common latrines across southeastern Australia.

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