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Excrements

Excrement

matter excreted and ejected; that which is excreted or cast out of the animal body by any of the natural emunctories; especially, alvine, discharges; dung; ordure.

Origin: L. Excrementum, fr. Excernere, excretum, to skin out, discharge: cf. F. Excrement. See excrete.


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Re: Surviving cannibals

... cunning) is wrong. The reason is simple: living beings can only extract a fraction of the energy contained in their food, which explains that excrements still contain energy (otherwise dungbeetle would starve to death :wink: ). This is the reason why one kilogram of grass will never become ...

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by DrD
Sat Jun 28, 2008 8:08 pm
 
Forum: Ecology
Topic: Surviving cannibals
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Views: 1660

decomposer

... those organisms that break down organic material to its basic components in sense that very few organisms can eat and live on their leftovers and excrements. In that gorup I would put bacteria and fungi. Scavangers would be organisms that activly search for dead organisms no matter of their size ...

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by Beetle
Tue Apr 15, 2008 10:10 am
 
Forum: Ecology
Topic: decomposer
Replies: 7
Views: 6214

Not as simple as you think it is.

... simple as haemorrhoids, or it could be as fatal as internal bleeding. It will also have to depend on the colour of the blood that comes with the excrements to determine which part is really bleeding.

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by calvin.ng.wh
Sat Apr 12, 2008 1:56 pm
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: Blood from the anus
Replies: 15
Views: 30189


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