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Who "dung" it?

Submitted by sabine on Mon, 12/05/2008 - 5:10pm.

How well do you know your poop?  Here's a little quiz for the over active minds.  See if you can be the first to identify the pictures of scat of various animals that are seen on the Africam streaming cams.  Let's try one at a time and go from there.  We can start with an easy one.  Are you ready? ____________________________

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Mon, 12/05/2008 - 5:12pm

Who "dung" it?

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Mon, 12/05/2008 - 6:39pm

All right Sabine, I'll go ahead and guess Ellie.  I am probably way out in left field but we'll see.  This could be fun.

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I am going with elephant too.

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Tue, 13/05/2008 - 10:24am

Well I would say Ellie, but I see a human foot in there.  You never know. Foot in mouth

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Tue, 13/05/2008 - 11:48am

Lea wrote:
Well I would say Ellie, but I see a human foot in there. You never know. Foot in mouth

Rofl and YUK Lea! Embarassed

Ellie dung to be sure, a few days old at least (no steam coming up!!!) because it has been dried out a bit by the sun.

Hang on whilst I stick my finger in to test it......yep, it's not very fresh and it tastes like female ellie dung!

(ever been caught out by that trick on a Game Drive?)

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Tue, 13/05/2008 - 12:12pm

Ellie i fink i am not sure but i fink ellie i am stuck cuz it could be rhino but no my final answer Ellie lol!

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Tue, 13/05/2008 - 4:52pm

I'm going with Rhino since it is kinda small to be an ellie's poop but It could

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Tabs wrote:

Hang on whilst I stick my finger in to test it......yep, it's not very fresh and it tastes like female ellie dung!

(ever been caught out by that trick on a Game Drive?)

LOL I have seen that done.  Do you mean that is not true.  I am so gullible.Embarassed

 

 

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Who "dung" it #1:  Elephant   

Here's a few elephant dung facts:

  • The approximately 250kg food eaten every day passes through 18m of intestines. Eventually processed into about 100kg of elephant dung per day.
  • Elephants only digest about 40% of what they eat, and therefore, they need to spend two-thirds of every day eating.
  • An elephant 'releases' 2000 litres of methane gas per day!
  • Some countries even re-cycle elephant dung into elephant dung paper.  Shocked

 you can check out more African Elephant cool facts here


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Thu, 15/05/2008 - 12:05pm

Methane is a pollutant and the biggest source is moo moos or cows lol! Smiling thanks sabine for the facts!

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Thu, 15/05/2008 - 5:30pm

Who "dung" it?

#2:   (sorry, no pun intended


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Thu, 15/05/2008 - 5:38pm

I am going to guess Rhino.

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Fri, 16/05/2008 - 10:48am

I think it is rhino

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Mon, 19/05/2008 - 9:37am

Who "dung" it

#2 hint: 

it is not from a rhino, however, like the rhino, it does come from an odd-toed ungulate.


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Mon, 19/05/2008 - 9:57am

Zebra ?

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Hippo??

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Mon, 19/05/2008 - 10:34am

I say zebra dung it.

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Mon, 19/05/2008 - 12:23pm

Well! That leaves the beautiful Zebra then.  Sure looks big for the Zebra.  You would think their's would be more dainty looking. LOL

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Hippo. I am so confused. I thought zebra had hooves.

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This looks, to me, very like the dung that is passed by Equus burchelli - Burchell's Zebra - which is the common species of Zebra in the lowveldt in South Africa, which includes the greater Kruger Park area. 

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sonygrl33 wrote:
Hippo. I am so confused. I thought zebra had hooves.

Yes, zebra have hooves, which makes them an 'ungulate' (hooved animal) They are, in fact, odd-toed unglulates - which means that they have either one or three toes.

Zebras have one toe (their hoof) whereas, for example, bufallo's are even-toed ungulates because their hooves are split in two.

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Thanks Tabs. Ok I change my answer to Zebra. You learn so much here! LOL

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Who "dung" it #2:  Zebra

Here's a few Burchell's Zebra facts:

  • they are mainly grazers, but sometimes browers during the dry season. 
  • herds are usually one stallion and a small group of mares or a bachelor herd.  
  • females in the herd follow a hierarchial system, the dominant mare is always in the lead.
  • burchell's zebras are the only species with shadow stripes on their rumps.


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Tue, 20/05/2008 - 6:36am

Sabine did u take these pictures yourself?

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dan loves zebras wrote:
Sabine did u take these pictures yourself?

LOL, no that is not my foot by the elephant dung Sticking out tongue

I wish I had taken these photos.  That would mean I have been to South Africa. 


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kool ok i am sure u will get to go some day hehe! got any more dung pictures lol! Eye-wink

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Who "dung" it?

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Hyena? They eat bones.

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 Hyaena!

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I think it is the dung of the spotted hyena.

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