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"Feces" is used more in biology and medicine than in other fields (reflecting science's tradition of classical Latin and Neo-Latin) In hunting and tracking, terms such as dung, scat, spoor, and droppings normally are used to refer to non-human animal feces; In husbandry and farming, manure is common. Stool is a common term in reference to human ...
Cloaca of a red-tailed hawk. A cloaca (/ k l oʊ ˈ eɪ k ə / ⓘ kloh-AY-kə), pl.: cloacae (/ k l oʊ ˈ eɪ s i / kloh-AY-see or / k l oʊ ˈ eɪ k i / kloh-AY-kee), or vent, is the rear orifice that serves as the only opening for the digestive (), reproductive, and urinary tracts (if present) of many vertebrate animals.
Horse feces and straw are forms of detritus, and are used as manure. In biology, detritus (/ d ɪ ˈ t r aɪ t ə s / or / d ɛ ˈ t r ɪ t ə s /) is organic matter made up of the decomposing remains of organisms and plants, and also of feces. Detritus usually hosts communities of microorganisms that colonize and decompose (remineralise) it.
Undigested food may also be expelled within the feces, in a process called egestion. When birds defecate, they also expel urine and urates in the same mass, whereas other animals may also urinate at the same time, but spatially separated. Defecation may also accompany childbirth and death.
Human feces photographed in a toilet, shortly after defecation.. Human feces (American English) or faeces (British English), commonly and in medical literature more often called stool, [1] are the solid or semisolid remains of food that could not be digested or absorbed in the small intestine of humans, but has been further broken down by bacteria in the large intestine.
Animal latrines (latrine areas, [1] animal toilets, defecation sites) are places where wildlife animals habitually defecate and urinate. Many kinds of animals are highly specific in this respect and have stereotyped routines, including approach and departure. [2] Many of them have communal, i.e., shared, latrines.
Cecotropes (also caecotropes, cecotrophs, cecal pellets, soft feces, or night feces) are a nutrient filled package created in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract, expelled and eaten by rabbits and guinea pigs (among other animals) to get more nutrition out of their food. The first time through the GI tract, small particles of fiber are moved into ...
Bowel contents that pass through the anus include the gaseous flatus and the semi-solid feces, which (depending on the type of animal) include: indigestible matter such as bones, hair pellets, endozoochorous seeds and digestive rocks; [3] residual food material after the digestible nutrients have been extracted, for example cellulose or lignin ...