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Recent Examples of guanoMarijuana grown with bat guano often has reportedly more complex aromas and flavors than those grown with synthetic fertilizers.—Dario Sabaghi, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024 According to Live Science, the Rochester residents died from pneumonia after the bat poop — also known as guano —released a harmful fungus called Histoplasma capsulatum.—Gabrielle Rockson, People.com, 17 Dec. 2024 The immediate reason for the first step in this northward expansion appears to have been the discovery of guano in the desert of Atacama.—Edwin M. Borchard, Foreign Affairs, 7 Oct. 2011 The team also found guano, or bat and bird poop, in the hearth.—Alexa Robles-Gil, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for guano
The contracts also hold farmers responsible for disposing of the hundreds of tons of manure that a typical poultry farm produces each year, along with the thousands of birds that die before they can be harvested.
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Ames Alexander,
Charlotte Observer,
26 Jan. 2025
However, the protest did not fully go as planned, as most of the manure remained frozen in the truck bed due to freezing temperatures.
Hundreds of barefoot pilgrims undertook a parikrama one morning, picking around heaps of cow dung dotting the road.
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Omkar Khandekar,
NPR,
5 Jan. 2025
With antivenom hard to find in rural areas, some snakebite victims pay traditional healers with a chicken or a small goat to apply herbs, bones and even dung.
To visualize how little exposure that entails, consider that one gram of poop (picture a quarter teaspoon) from a person with norovirus can include billions of viral particles.
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Erica Sloan,
SELF,
14 Jan. 2025
Manure management systems in which the manure is stacked in outdoor mounds and exposed to oxygen — as opposed to the poop lagoon systems used by most commercial dairies — largely avoid releasing methane.
This behavior could help explain why historical Florida manatee populations that were hunted by humans are absent from middens and rarely mentioned in historical accounts.
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Beth Brady,
Sun Sentinel,
21 Jan. 2025
Also plugging into the idea of tourism as education, marine biologist Cormac McGinley runs leave-no-trace fossil discovery walks and tours of the Burren’s lunar-like landscape, which take in sea caves, ancient middens, and color-popping anemones.
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