Relatives of the llama are dropping dung as they venture into higher elevations in the Andes Mountains, providing a ...

This typically includes seeds or undigested grasses and berries ... may suggest more in-depth methods of cleaning up wild ...

By depositing substantial piles of dung, vicuñas are speeding up plant colonization on freshly deglaciated terrain.

Although raccoons may also have seeds, their scat is much smaller. Other animals with globular poop, such as bison, will have more grass than seeds in their piles. Tubular bear poop often contains ...

Feces don’t get enough credit as food. The stinky stuff is not just an end product after food gets eaten, digested and finally discarded by animal guts. Poop can also be something nutritious ...

The bathroom habits of a lesser-known cousin to the llama are helping researchers better understand how ecosystems adapt to ...

These animals deposit nutrients and plant seeds from lower elevations in their poop onto deglaciated ground, and then the seeds germinate, attracting other organisms, including animals that feed ...

In the Andes, native camelids like alpacas, llamas, vicuñas, and guanacos impact the landscape with their social behaviors.