Life in Antarctica thrives on poop

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Or in scientific terms “Nitrogen Inputs by Marine Vertebrates Drive Abundance and Richness in Antarctic Terrestrial Ecosystems”

https://www.google.com/amp/s/news.mongabay.com/2019/05/penguin-and-seal-poop-powers-life-in-antarctica-study-finds/amp/

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I’m only responding so that you’re not adding to your list of no-response posts again.

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Can’t we get robocop to respond for us?

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Did you know the oxygen in the air that you are breathing is plants’ poop?

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Isn’t poop, by definition, a solid?

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Not when you’re in Malaysia!

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You had to go there…

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Not I, but @Andrew0409 did.

I might never go after hearing those horror stories.

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I was regular as a Swiss clock in Malaysia, but I didn’t stay as long as @Andrew0409 did.

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Definitely plant ‘burp’, not poop!

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Malaysian farts are solid?

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Bird poop was harvested as fertiliser in Peruvian history. Overseas sale helped the country reap tons of profits.

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Thanks for that. I’d never heard of guano before.

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Dung of Guanay Cormorants and Peruvian Pelicans and Boobies that live on 22 islands off the west coast of Peru!

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And this is why I’ll never move to Antarctica, no matter how much my wife pressures me to do so.

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I think most life in most places rely on poo. Its nutrient recycling. If you eat food, you are part of that cycle too. Both the input and output.

I thought only master Kim in north Korea was above the whole poop cycle.