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Recent Examples of guanoEven after the penguins migrated from the area, the ammonia concentration was still more than 100 times higher than the baseline, as the penguin guano left at the colony site continued to emit the gas.—Doyle Rice, USA Today, 24 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.—Tim Chester, AFAR Media, 17 Apr. 2025 How does seeing that black mold and guano in person change the story for you?—Taylor Kate Brown, ProPublica, 14 Mar. 2025 Finally, liquid bat guano and liquid earthworm castings (guano and castings are euphemisms for excrement) are also utilized for foliar fertilization.—Joshua Siskin, Orange County Register, 14 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for guano
One day, his dad, Brian (Palin), shares an old recipe involving rainwater, horse manure and alchemy to create Homunculi – magical prophesying spirits that can predict the future.
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Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
9 Oct. 2025
Animal manure is typically kept on site, which plays a significant role in air quality, according to the study.
Like similar toilets, the bowl area is lined with a bag-like film that catches excrement and urine.
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New Atlas,
New Atlas,
9 Oct. 2025
Evidence of damage includes chewed, cut or missing leaves; yellowing or brown leaves; white webbing and green-black excrement on or around the plant, according to the Ohio Department of Agriculture.
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.
Only one of us has other people pick up his poop in a bag.
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Bruce Headlam,
New Yorker,
13 Oct. 2025
The inspector counted about 53 pieces of rodent poop, including 20 in the kitchen under a storage rack and 15 in a storage area under the ice bin and storage shelves and another 15 under a flip-top cooler.
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
At others middens, livestock was reared locally, according to the study.
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