Fecal Shields, and 5 Other Ways Animals Use Poop

Proud of what you just did in the bathroom? You should be, but here are 6 animals who are masters of the art of pooping! Hosted by: Stefan Chin ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters: Kelly Landrum Jones, Sam Lutfi, Kevin Knupp, Nicholas Smith, D.A. Noe, alexander wadsworth, سلطا الخليفي, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Bader AlGhamdi, James Harshaw, Patrick Merrithew, Patrick D. Ashmore, Candy, Tim Curwick, charles george, Saul, Mark Terrio-Cameron, Viraansh Bhanushali, Kevin Bealer, Philippe von Bergen, Chris Peters, Justin Lentz ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://io9.gizmodo.com/5872472/the-wombats-cubic-poop-is-one-of-natures-weirdest-superpowers https://theconversation.com/why-do-wombats-do-cube-shaped-poo-55975 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3797445 https://www.birdwatchingdaily.com/blog/2015/02/25/julie-craves-explains-droppings-reveal-wild-turkeys/ https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00300-003-0563-3 http://mentalfloss.com/article/70087/some-penguins-are-projectile-poopers https://www.livescience.com/59601-why-do-animals-eat-poop.html http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1344-3941.2003.00124.x/full https://www.reed.edu/biology/professors/srenn/pages/teaching/web_2008/ryaw_site/index.html http://www.reed.edu/biology/professors/srenn/pages/teaching/web_2008/ryaw_site/mechanism.html https://www.wired.com/2015/06/absurd-creature-of-the-week-tortoise-beetle/ http://www.pnas.org/content/97/6/2632.long https://www.wired.com/2012/08/blue-whale-poop/ http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/277/1699/3527.full http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0013255 https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2014/04/03/298778615/the-power-of-poop-a-whale-story https://www.livescience.com/8788-whale-poo-ocean-miracle-grow.html PICS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vombatus_ursinus_-Maria_Island_National_Park.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Certified_Wombat_Faeces.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sperm_whale_pod_recolored.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sperm_whale_Tim_Cole_NMFS_crop.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sperm_whale_drawing_with_skeleton.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flickr_-_don_macauley_-_Deadly_Nightshade.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Southern_Hairy-nosed_Wombat.jpg