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Here's Gail examining some poo - but which creature it might have come from?
It smells horrible and is full of seeds - which means the creature concerned probably eats a lot of fruit.
Any ideas?
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Stephen has the answer.
The poo belongs to fruitbats, sometimes called flying foxes.
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They're the only flying mammal and are nocturnal creatures - which means they sleep during the day and fly out at dusk to feed on ripe aromatic fruit like bananas, figs and papayas.
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All that fruit going in means a lot of poo comes out.
Amazingly bats poo every 15 minutes throughout the day and night!
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But because bats live in huge numbers, side by side, they make a lot of mess.
Where we were recording, at Jersey Zoo, there are only 60 bats - but look at all the poo!
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Sometimes, in the wild, bats roost in larger numbers - sometimes up to one million!
Imagine how much poo that would make!
Eww!
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