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How well do you know your animal poo? Find out with this picture quiz

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How well do you know your animal poo? Find out with this picture quiz

Can you match these pictures of poo to the animal responsible? This quiz from naturalist Chris Packham is a bit of fun - but you will learn some fascinating faeces facts along the way

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Health

First faecal transplant treatment approved for use in the US

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Slug species feeding on oyster mushrooms (Pleurotus)

Life

Slug poo helps mushrooms start new colonies by spreading spores

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Scat scans: How lasers are teasing secrets from ancient poo

Life

Scat scans: How lasers are teasing secrets from ancient poo

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Baby

Health

Babies are being fed mother’s poo in effort to boost gut bacteria

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Eric Alm

Health

I'm travelling the world to collect poo for the good of humankind

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wombats

Life

Why do wombats poo cubes and turkeys spirals? One woman is finding out

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rabbits

Life

Rabbits flee when they smell dead relatives in predators' droppings

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Naked mole rat baby

Life

Naked mole rats may become good parents by eating their queen’s faeces

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Down the drain - and into a 3D printer

Space

Astronauts could 3D print tools from their own processed faeces

Astronauts on long missions won't be able to bring all their tools with them. A new way of turning faeces into 3D-printable plastic may solve that problem

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Health

WHO launches bold plan to slash cholera deaths by 90 per cent

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