Scientists at the University of Georgia dropped a new study on how wombats communicate using their square-shaped droppings.
Wombats poop out little cubes that have long confounded scientists and the public, but Scott Carver, a professor in the Odom School of ecology at the University of Georgia, said there’s a lot more to the square scats than meets the eye.
“Olfactory communication, or communication through a sense of smell is the most dominant form of communication across organisms, and so we had a strong sense pun intended that wombats engaged in this kind of communication already,” Carver said.
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