So, I had to look that up. According to Patricia Yang, a researcher at the Georgia Institute of Technology, the poop is probably cube shaped because the intestines have two distinct ravine-like grooves, where the intestine is stretchier, which she believes helps shape wombat feces into cubic scat. This is from National Geographic.
So, I had to look that up. According to Patricia Yang, a researcher at the Georgia Institute of Technology, the poop is probably cube shaped because the intestines have two distinct ravine-like grooves, where the intestine is stretchier, which she believes helps shape wombat feces into cubic scat. This is from National Geographic.