>>25596891Sure! You want to know more about poop? The scientific term for penguin - and seabird or bat - shit is 'guano,' and there are islands that are effectively built from years upon years of poop accumulating upon itself. In fact, Humboldt penguins build their nests in small burrows carved into their own accumulated, hardened poop.
>https://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/smithsonian-and-guanoGuano is also an excellent source of nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus and it makes for excellent fertilizer. In the 19th century, pillaging islands for guano was a surprisingly popular and immensely profitable industry. Unfortunately, the mass removal of heaps upon heaps of poop from these islands destabilized an ecosystem that depended on nutrients from guano runoff and animals that required guano for habitat.
