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CHAPTER 1 POO

All aboard!

When plants want to spread their seeds

around, who do they call? The cassowary poo bus! When the cassowary goes for a walk and defecates, the seeds of fruit it has eaten are “dropped off” in new areas. Cassowaries are big birds, so they can carry the seeds of more than 70 species of large- fruiting trees that other smaller animals can’t eat.

That was an interesting ride!

Some spiders have evolved cunning disguises to protect them from predators. But how about poo camouflage? The celaenia spider is also known as the bird- dropping spider for its unappetizing disguise.

i’m a little poo.

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