wombats

Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology first started studying the wombat's ability to poop cubes back in 2018, by analyzing8 the digestive tracts9 of wombats involved in car accidents.

乔治亚理工学院的研究人员从2018年开始通过分析死于车祸的袋熊的消化道来研究袋熊为什么能拉方形便便。

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One states that because wombats pick up their poop and stack it as a way of communicating between them, the cubicle16 shape helps them build higher poop towers.

其中一种理论指出，因为袋熊会捡拾自己的便便堆起来，以这种方式来和同类交流，立方体形状有助于它们将便便堆成“高塔”。

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There are more than 130 species of marsupials, such as kangaroos, koalas, and wombats.

这里有130多种有袋目动物, 像袋鼠, 考拉和袋熊.

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Also fun fact, the poop of wombats in captivity17 isn't as cubic as that of wild ones.

还有一个有趣的事实是，圈养袋熊的便便不像野生袋熊的便便那么方。

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Wombats, marsupials native to the grassy3 plains and eucalyptus4 forests of Australia, are among the most adorable animals in the world, but to animal experts they have been a tough-to-solve mystery for a very long time.

居住在澳大利亚草原和桉树林里的有袋哺乳动物袋熊是世界上最可爱的动物之一，但是很长时间以来它们对于动物专家来说都是难解的谜。

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Interestingly, in most mammals, the contractions14 of intestinal muscles occur in all directions, but in wombats, the grooved15 tissue and irregular contractions shape the poop differently.

有趣的是，大多数哺乳动物的肠道肌肉都是向各个方向收缩，但是袋熊带纹路的肠道肌肉组织和不规则的收缩方式却将便便塑造成了不同的形状。

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Where else in the world can you find emus, wombats, galahs, kangaroos, koalas, platypi ( 7), kookaburras, quokkas, wallabies and wallaroos?

除了这里，你还能在哪里看得到鸸鹋、袋熊、桃红鹦鹉、袋鼠、考拉、鸭嘴兽、笑翠鸟、短尾矮袋鼠、小袋鼠和大袋鼠呢？

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You see, bare-nosed wombats have the unique ability to produce up to 100 distinctive5, cuboid pieces of poop every day.

要知道，毛鼻袋熊拥有一项独特能力，每天都能拉多达100个与众不同的立方体便便。

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Now that the mystery of how bare-nosed wombats produce cubical poop seems to have been solved, that only leaves the 'why'.

毛鼻袋熊拉出方形便便的谜题既然已经解开，现在只剩下一个问题：为什么袋熊要拉方形便便？

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Another theory claims that because wombats tend to use their poop to mark their territory on rocks and logs, the cubical shape of the excrement ensures that it won't simply roll off.

另一种理论指出，因为袋熊倾向于在石头和原木上用自己的便便来划分彼此的领地，立方体形状的便便不会从石头和原木上滚下去。

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Wombats wanted to wiggle along the ground.

袋熊想在地面上扭动前进.

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