Cube poop, mother-poop weaning, fungus farming with poop. The wildest poop facts from the animal kingdom.
How giant pandas eat enormous amounts of bamboo and produce enormous amounts of poop. Unchikun explains the evolutionary mismatch — a carnivore's gut surviving on bamboo — and what it teaches us about reading our own poop.
2026-05-02
Newborn koalas cannot digest eucalyptus alone. They acquire the special microbes by eating mom's "pap." Unchikun explains microbial inheritance, and the very similar story happening invisibly in humans.
2026-04-29
Leafcutter ants don't eat leaves — they feed them to a fungus, eat the fungus, and fertilize the fungus garden with their own poop. Unchikun walks you through one of nature's most elegant farming systems.
2026-04-29
The Australian wombat is the only animal on Earth that makes cube-shaped poop. Unchikun explains the 2019 Ig Nobel-winning research that finally cracked the mystery, and what it teaches us about reading our own poop.
2026-04-29
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