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Recent Examples of dunghillIn Shakespeare, Cade’s corpse ends up tossed over a dunghill.—Alex Beam, BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2018
And like the wildebeest, bison dung packs a nutritional punch when deposited across the landscape.
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Madison Dapcevich,
Outside,
29 Aug. 2025
Decades before Colorado’s best singers, dancers and actors graced the Ellie Caulkins Opera House in downtown Denver, workers pushed brooms across the stage to clean up elephant dung, rodeo sawdust, and blood spatters from boxing matches.
According to the study, the guano’s byproducts accelerated the formation of clouds by 10,000 times.
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Sara Hashemi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
27 May 2025
The team is also working on restoring the habitat across the island, which was stripped of all its vegetation during its time as an erstwhile guano mining spot.
Deputies who responded to the scene said the home was covered in trash and smelled of human excrement.
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Chris Spargo,
PEOPLE,
5 Sep. 2025
Human excrement can contain a wide range of parasites, bacteria, and viruses that can contaminate bodies of water, causing harm not only to humans but also to flora and fauna.
In East Chisenbury, sheep dominated the feast, and while the midden contained hundreds of thousands of animals, research showed they were, in contrast, locally sourced.
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Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
13 Sep. 2025
The musket balls were found together near a midden by the metal detectorist, cultural heritage coordinator Anthony Simmons said in the release, meaning a member of the First Nations could have brought the shot belt there and then discarded it.
Six months later, the internship — some of which bore all the glamour of scrubbing bird poop and bucketing hundreds of pounds of fish as dolphin food — developed into a full-time gig as a trainer.
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Teri Figueroa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 Sep. 2025
Clearing out the poop from the animals’ enclosures is a significant part of the zoo’s daily energy usage.
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Elizabeth B. Kim,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
7 Sep. 2025
Qatar denounces ‘cowardly’ Israeli strike targeting Hamas leaders Israel launched an aerial strike against senior Hamas leaders in Doha on Tuesday, in its first direct attack on Qatari soil, marking a significant escalation in regional tensions.
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Jeronimo Gonzalez,
semafor.com,
10 Sep. 2025
What Mill does is preserve food as a resource, keeping nutrients intact so they can be used to feed soil or farms.
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