Happy Crapper
Cranes use it for courtship, hippos to mark territory, and frogs for camouflage. Humans mostly flush it as fast as they can.
A new 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 Canadian author and photographer Wayne Lynch about the way animals and humans use fecal matter.
The exhibit even includes a touchable Coprolite, a fossilized piece of turd tossed by a Tyrannosaurus Rex 80 million years ago.
On Monday 23 October police released a CCTV image of a man who has struck on at least 30 trains since August.
He waits until he is alone before committing the offence, smearing excrement inside carriages.
On October 26 British Transport Police charged a man in relation to a series of alleged vandalism attacks on trains across Croydon and the south east.
In other news, police were hot on the trail of a suspect they've dubbed the Happy Crapper.
He's broken into nine houses on the Mountain since July. He's stolen thousands of dollars worth of jewellery, cash and small electronics. He took a cop's badge from one house. He's busted in doors and ransacked rooms.
Most disturbing of all, though, wasn't what he was taking. It was what he was leaving behind.
He's defecated at seven scenes. Usually he leaves his calling card in the back yard. Once on the kitchen floor. At another place, he left feces in a bikini and on the bed sheets.
After living in the remote wilderness of Kentucky all his life, an old hillbilly decided it was time to visit the big city. In one of the stores he picked up a mirror and looked in it. Not ever having seen one before, he remarked at the image staring back at him, "How about that! Here's a picture of my Daddy." He bought the 'picture', but on the way home he remembered that his wife, Lizzy, didn't like his father. So he hung it in the barn and every morning before leaving for the fields, he would go there and look at it.
