Let’s get a bit stinky with five fascinating fast facts about faeces, a deep dive into unusual animal poo, a question about why poo smells bad, some history of fossilised poo, and scat saving citizen science projects for you to try yourself.

Written, presented, and produced by Jenny Lynch.

https://www.creativescience.com.au

Episode content:

00:00 Introduction and fast facts

02:46 Unusual animal poo

05:04 Why does poo smell so bad?

06:08 Fossilised faeces - coprolites

08:06 Citizen science projects using animal scats

- Echidna CSI at the University of Adelaide in South Australia https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/echidna-csi

- Koala DNA at Griffith University in Queensland

https://www.griffith.edu.au/griffith-sciences/research/koala-dna

- Scoop a Poop at Macquarie University in New South Wales

https://www.scoopapoop.net/