0 the solid waste that is released from the bowels of a person or animal:
human excrement
1 waste material that leaves the body through the bowels
On a carefully managed pasture, nutrients cycle from soil to plants to animals and through their excrement, to soil.
However, the study did not include analysis of leachates from leaf litter and direct deposition of invertebrate (and sometimes vertebrate) carcasses and excrement.
They are attracted to excrement, decaying, putrefying or purulent substances.
I have found them commonly in human excrement and in a variety of decaying vegetable substances, even in rotting grass.
It can only be a predator and a scavenger eating dirt, excrement and human flesh.
In pre-industrial societies urban waste had largely been recycled, with animal and human excrement employed as fertilizer in the surrounding countryside.
The raven, a master of light, is continuously associated with final products such as soot, excrements, inedible food and human bones.
Her daughter-in-law remained the only person to bring water and rice gruel three times a day and to clean away her excrement in the evening.