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'''Scat''' (not to be confused with Sport Competition Anxiety Test <span class="plainlinks">[http://www.brianmac.co.uk/scat.htm]</span>) is the technical term for the excrement of an [[animal]] or [[human]].  Scatology is the science of poop. Scatological language is poopy talk.
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'''Scat''' (not to be confused with Sport Competition Anxiety Test <span class="plainlinks">[http://www.brianmac.co.uk/scat.htm]</span>) is the technical term for the excrement of an [[animal]] or [[human]].  Scatology is the science of poop. Scatological language is poopy talk.  Constipation or [[Conservapedia Bowel Syndrome]] is the name for the failure to remove scat at regular intervals.
  
 
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Scat (not to be confused with Sport Competition Anxiety Test [1]) is the technical term for the excrement of an animal or human. Scatology is the science of poop. Scatological language is poopy talk. Constipation or Conservapedia Bowel Syndrome is the name for the failure to remove scat at regular intervals.

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Sex

Scat also refers to sexual practices based around, well, poop. Since poop can contain nasty stuff like germs, playing with it requires appropriate attention to health safeguards.

Biology

An animal’s scat can tell scientists a great deal about its DNA, its state of health, reproductive cycle, whether there are toxins in its environment and much more. Dogs are trained to sniff scat out.[1]

A creature An animal that is a scatophage is a "poop eater". Flies, dung beetles and some others insects are scatophags. Young mammals such as elephants eat the scat of their mothers to show filial respect to get bacteria that they need to digest their food. Rabbits and some other small herbivores pass soft pellets which they eat again so more of their food is digested when food passes through the gut a second time.

Plants absorb nutrients from scat and other animal waste mainly through their root system; then we eat the plants.

Archaeology, paleontology, and scat

Dr Eric Ottleban Callen founded the scientific study of scat, so today archaeologists and palaeontologists analyze scat. That material can give useful information about the diet and health of people and amimals in former times. Dry dung is referred to scientifically as coprolite and can be treated with chemicals to make it soft and smelly as it previously was. Particles of bone, seeds and pollen found in coprolite provide evidence about the plant food that was ingested while charcoal gives evidence of cooking. Differences in composition of coprolite can give evidence of economic or social distinctions in what was eaten. There is uncertainty about the time interval between dumps.[2][3]

Ancient Israel

Naturally this part of archaeology deals also with ancient Israel, for example,

Another recent find in Jerusalem shows how much of the daily lives of ancient peoples archaeology can uncover. It's a toilet that probably dates from 587-586 B.C., the time of Nebuchadnezzer's successful siege of Jerusalem, when the Israelites went into the Babylonian Captivity. An examination of the coprolite residue at the toilet, says Marcus, found that during the siege people were reduced to eating raw meat covered with parasites and weeds.[4]

If Jesus was fully human he must have pooped.

Other examples

Radiocarbon dated poo shows that humans were in North America 14,000 years ago (before Young Earthers say the world was made).[5]

Yet one more example is Anglo-Saxon poo from Gloucestershire, England that has been a popular item on display at a science festival.[6]

Luther

Martin Luther suffered a lifetime of difficulty removing poo from his bowels, see Trivia about Luther.

Jazz

Scat is also, innocently enough, a style of vocalization in jazz, famously employed by Ella Fitzgerald - notably in Jerry Springer: The Opera one character with a scatological fetish starts scat singing (such is the height of the wit employed). If you're looking for companions for jazz singing and water polo, don't put up a personal ad expressing an interest in "scat and watersports."

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