~ The Scoop on Poop

A FOSSILISED piece of faecal matter passed by a Tyrannosaurus Rex 80 million years ago is one of the highlights at Miami Metrozoo’s exhibit “The Scoop on Poop”.

It’s an exhibit at the Miami Metrozoo is set to open minds about this omnipresent, versatile, little loved yet practical byproduct of life on earth.

It’s called The Scoop on Poop, and it’s based on a book by Canadian author and photographer Wayne Lynch about the way animals and humans use faecal matter.

In a series of interactive exhibits, kids and adults can learn more than they ever dreamed there was to know about poop.

The Maasai of Kenya and northern Tanzania, for instance, use it to cover their houses.

People in parts of Asia and South America use it as fuel or fertiliser.

Animals have infinite uses for it.

You can even find out how long it would take an African elephant, one of the animal kingdom’s most prolific poopers, to excrete the equivalent of your body weight - the average time for three recent visitors: 10 hours.

“Human poop doesn’t have any use to us directly as animals do but is a huge vehicle of information for our health for anything from parasites to cancer,” zoo spokesman Ron McGill said.

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Yes, its defenitely an exhibit you don’t want to miss.