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researchers tracked the wild gorillas by following the piles of dung
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Still, Allen is tickled by the prospect of exhuming a tapeworm from elephant dung during his next field-research trip, on the Italian side of the Traversette.
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Some critics (including the group that in March dumped 88 pounds of animal dung outside the Palazzo) view the show as an exercise in megalomania.
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The aroma was equally thrilling—a heady mix of sawdust, cotton candy, and animal dung.
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In boyhood, George Mwinnyaa walked barefoot on a dirt path to school from a house built of mud and cow dung.
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Between the zoo's six elephants, five rhinoceroses and three bantengs, the zoo collects more than 2,000 pounds of dung per day.
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Between the zoo's six elephants, five rhinoceroses and three bantengs, the zoo collects more than 2,000 pounds of dung per day.
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Mr. Pulphus, a high school artist from St. Louis, may never become a free speech cause célèbre akin to Mr. Ofili, the professional London artist whose depiction of a black Virgin Mary, encrusted with a lump of elephant dung, caused a furor in 1999.
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Elephants are keystone animals, acting as gardeners, engineers, and architects for ecosystems, dispersing seeds, clearing scrub, and fertilizing the soil with their dung.
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Origin and Etymology of dung
Middle English, from Old English; akin to Old Norse dyngja manure pile
dung
Definition of dung
transitive verb
: to fertilize or dress with manure
intransitive verb
: defecate
First Known Use of dung
before 12th century
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