Exempel på defecate

• As flies are by no means particular in choosing either a place to feed or a place to defecate, often selecting meat or food for the purpose, a somewhat alarming vision of possible consequences is raised. 

• In well developed cases, the animal strains to defecate, and passes shreds of intestinal mucous along with blood-stained feces. 

• The natural instinct to defecate, like many other natural instincts, is usually deadened by failure to exercise it. 

• They always defecate upon the open ground, and will not use privies or latrines This is a matter of religious obligation with them. 

• Underneath the roof is an opening in the earth where the people defecate. 

• On the other hand, they did not provide any direct evidence that seeds defecated by grit-using birds are intact and viable.

• Moreover, cats usually defecate at night in sandy soils and bury the faeces.

• The birds abrade the seed surfaces in the gut, enhancing germination, and then disperse the seeds when they defecate.

• Cassowaries consume the fruit whole, when ripe, and defecate seeds in piles away from parent trees, where seed predation rates are lower.

• Faecal samples were obtained from animals that defecated upon handling, and were stored in jars of 10% formalin.

• Regurgitated seeds that were deposited within trees were more likely to end up in sites suitable for establishment than defecated seeds.

• Chimpanzees and gorillas are likely effective seed dispersers because individually they defecate large numbers of seeds.

• This does not rule out their possibility as dispersers, however, as there was no evidence that they did not defecate in trees.

• From the above results, the primate community was estimated to defecate 1129 seeds km-2 d-1.

• The vast majority (85.4% or 159 out of 186) of seeds defecated by spider monkeys were deposited >100 m away from parental feeding patches.

• Each treatment was replicated four times for each species, using 25 seeds (intact fruits, cleaned seeds, defecated seeds) for each replication.

• Regurgitated seeds were also more frequently found singly or in small groups than defecated seeds.

• The source of such an increase in contamination is likely to be the birds defecating onto one another, as well as upon the crates.

• The number of seeds that were found deposited in a group also differed depending on whether seeds had been defecated or regurgitated.

• Seeds defecated by the latter species showed decreased viability, but the number of seeds tested was small.