{"666185":{"#nid":"666185","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Why wombats have cubed-shaped poop","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWalk around a forest in Canada and you can\u0026rsquo;t miss the precise piles of round animal poop: Deer, moose, and rabbits. But there is one animal in the world (that we know of) that poops in cubes and it\u0026rsquo;s a wombat. How does the Tasmanian mammal do that? Yes, serious researchers want to know.\u0026nbsp;A team from the University of Tasmania has determined that a wombat\u0026rsquo;s surprisingly long and intermittently stretchy intestines compress their poop (or stool) into cubes. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\/faculty\/hu\u0022\u003EDavid Hu\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EGeorge W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E and the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E, worked on the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cos.gatech.edu\/news\/studying-wombats-cubic-poop\u0022\u003Ewombat research\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;with the University of Tasmania.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2023-02-27 15:08:32","changed_gmt":"2023-02-28 14:25:39","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.greenprophet.com\/2023\/02\/why-wombats-have-cubed-poop\/","dateline":{"date":"2023-02-22T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2023-02-22T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166882","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"297","name":"David Hu"},{"id":"182253","name":"wombat"},{"id":"192226","name":"wombat poop"},{"id":"192227","name":"University of Tasmania"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}