Wombats koten cube-shaped. Researchers explain how and why

bummer: researchers from Atlanta found out how Wombats produce cube-shaped poop. The chubby bag animals with short feet for use of their different elastic and movable intestinal walls, such as the research team led by Patricia Yang from Georgia Institute of Technology a meeting of the American Physical Society reported. From a liquid mass intestine the unusual, but practical cube shape, so at the end of the Wombat.

"I came to this topic, because I've never seen something so Strange in biology. It was a mystery," said Yang. In the beginning, you would have thought the cube-shaped feces was a joke on the Internet. But then she began with her colleagues to dissect the digestive tracts Casino Siteleri of Wombats and to investigate. For this, the Team took advantage of animals that had been euthanized following a road traffic accident on the island of Tasmania.

The cuddly vegetarian leave a day 80 to 100 of the small cubes to your area identify and communicate with each other through scent. For the pile you choose according to the researchers, well-visible places, because their visual acuity is low. The higher and better the pile is placed, the stronger it attracts other Wombats to get a whiff of it, and to enter into an exchange. This, in turn, the shape of the faeces plays a crucial role: The poop to not roll away, but in exposed places, small batch form.

The researchers hope the new findings can also technically use: "Currently, there are two ways to dice shapes: shape or Cut," explains Yang. Possibly the cubes were shapes, such as the Wombat but also with the help of soft tissue.