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Can’t believe this article missed the most delightful factoid regarding wombats’ cubic poo.

• jimmcslim 8y ago
  ODE TO THE WOMBAT — Anon. As you pound along the track Eyes wide open and ears pinned back You may have noticed those queer square turds And thought if not expressed in words The pain of such defecation Baffles the imagination But it ain’t done to entertain us The wombat has an oblong anus So if at night you hear pained cries Outside your tent, feel no surprise With eyes shut tight, teeth clenched with pain A wombat’s gone and crapped again! (The ‘cubic poo’ is such a feature of the Overland Track in Tasmania’s Cradle Mountain National Park it has inspired the above poem... I originally saw it posted on the walls of a drop toilet at a campsite on the track)