• Question: What does baboon poo smell like

    Asked by zchebout to Cassie on 18 Nov 2013.
    • Photo: Cassandra Raby

      Cassandra Raby answered on 18 Nov 2013:

      Hahaha… it smells just as you think poo would smell like! Pooey!

      But luckily the baboons don’t eat too much meat, which means the poo is just plant matter. Now, I’ve smelt a lot of poo and the insides of animals stomachs, and I can tell you that animals that eat meat have much smellier poo! So it could be much worse.

      Also we put the poo straight into a chemical (called formalin) and a tube, so you stop smelling it pretty quicky.

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