Researchers have finally discovered why wombats’ faeces is cube shaped, and it is not what they initially thought.
Senior lecturer in wildlife ecology Scott Carver was dissecting wombats to study mange disease when he and his research team made the discovery.
We found that their cubed faeces actually goes back about a metre inside their intestines from their anus, which is really quite far inside their bodies.
Wombats intestines are said to be nine metres in length — a size Mr Carver described as “just huge” given the size of the animal compared to the average human. Grass takes about a week to get through a wombat’s intestine, three times as long as for a human.
The amusing find has earned the researchers the Ig Nobel prize.
That explains two different things that mollwollfumble has been dying to know.
