River otters are unequivocally cute. But their eating habits are not so adorable. Most animals—humans included—separate the place where they defecate from the place where they eat. But river otters ...

Defecation is commonly treated as a universal feature of animal life, a visible outcome of digestion and metabolic turnover. In biological terms, however, waste handling takes multiple forms, shaped ...

Biologists and ecologists have long wished to gather high-quality data on exactly what the animals they study are eating, but how can such observations be made without disturbing the natural patterns ...

Climate change is melting away glaciers around the world, but in the Andes Mountains, a wild relative of the llama is helping local ecosystems adapt to these changes by dropping big piles of dung.

One thing that almost all creatures have in common is that we all poop. For humans poop is mostly a unwanted inconvenience but when it comes to the rest of the animal kingdom it becomes much more ...

Relatives of the llama are dropping dung as they venture into higher elevations in the Andes Mountains, providing a nutrient-rich environment for life to thrive despite glacier loss. Climate change is ...