Billy Idol

I'm not trying to hide from my past. I want to roll in it. Like a dog, rolling in feces, I'm rolling in the feces of my greatest hits - that's a bit of a wild way of looking at it, but I am a man, and we do like rolling in our own feces at times.

British Musician

Rose George

Diarrhea, 90 percent of which is caused by food and water contaminated by excrement, kills a child every fifteen seconds. That's more than AIDS, malaria, or measles, combined. Human feces are an impressive weapon of mass destruction.

British Journalist

Of all the peoples of the world, the Chinese are probably the most at home with their excrement. They know its value. For 4,000 years they have used raw human feces to fertilize fields.

Kyle Hill

Bigfoot does not exist because there would be evidence left behind - hair, feces, bones, kills, offspring, a carcass - if it did.

American Author

Feces specifically refers to waste from digestive processes, suitable for medical or biological discussions.

Body Function

Although a clinical term, it's more polite than 'poo' or 'shit' when discussing bowel movements.

Polite Term

Feces can be solid or liquid, indicating different health conditions when discussing symptoms.

Not Always Solid

In a non-medical context, feces can refer broadly to any discarded material or pollution.

Broader Use

The use of 'feces' for non-bodily waste often implies a negative view of the material, being dirty or unwanted.

Negative Connotation

'Feces' can be metaphorically used to express strong disapproval or contempt for something.

Metaphoric Usage

 Those probably made a lot of you in the audience feel very, very disgusted, but if you didn't look, I can tell you about some of the other things that have been shown sort of across the world to make people disgusted, things like feces, urine, blood, rotten flesh. These are the sorts of things that it makes sense

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 And you see, this is very, very unfortunate because tapirs are extremely important for the habitats where they are found. They're herbivores. Fifty percent of their diet consists of fruit, and when they eat the fruit, they swallow the seeds, which they disperse throughout the habitat through their feces.

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 living on their own feces, breathing ammonia-laden air. And when chickens get sick, some of them die. And you don't get paid for dead chickens, and Craig started to struggle to pay off his loan, he realized he made a mistake, but he was all but an indentured servant at this stage.

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 Fortunately, while Ebola is highly virulent, several factors limit its contagiousness. Unlike viruses that proliferate through small, airborne particles, Ebola only exists in bodily fluids, such as saliva, blood, mucus, vomit, or feces. In order to spread,

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 urine, feces in the scrape, urine in the scrape, feces next to the scrape, they have a whole language of how they communicate. And I could see jaguars probably have the most powerful jaws of any cat in the world. Now that's been proven that jaguars

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 that needs both cats and rodents to complete its life cycle. When a rat gets infected by eating cat feces, the parasite changes chemical levels in the rat's brain, making it less cautious around the hungry felines, maybe even attracted to them.

How parasites change...

 To understand why, let's take a look at the parasite's life cycle. While the parasite can multiply in practically any host, it can only reproduce sexually in the intestines of cats. The offspring, called oocysts, are shed in the cat's feces.

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 As they do so, they transport fertilizer in the form of their feces from places that have it to places that need it. So clearly, whales are really important in nutrient cycling, both horizontally and vertically, through the oceans.

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 like banging their heads on the walls of their cells or smearing themselves with feces. Or attempting suicide, some of them successfully. Many people cut themselves just to feel the pain that keeps them tethered to the real world.

What happens to people...

 system deep underground that will deal with it this very absence of and our conscious lives can be seen in the absence of any adequate word with which to discuss it feces excreta turds poop doo-doo unless you are talking to a