After a highly successful Easter launch of ‘Poo at the Zoo’ which saw The National Poo Museum reaching global attention with media enquiries from as far away as Australia, USA and India, the museum at the Isle of Wight Zoo is now preparing to welcome a very special guest over the Bank Holiday weekend.
On Sunday 1st May The National Poo Museum will be welcoming naturalist and broadcaster Chris Packham, who will be hosting a day of ‘Really Wild about Poo’.
Regular viewers of BBC’s Springwatch will be familiar with Chris’s fairly extensive collection of animal excrement but amongst his most treasured is poo from a giant tortoise.
Visitors to the zoo and The National Poo Museum on 1st May will be given a rare opportunity to get up close and personal with Chris’s poo and have a chance to come up trumps in his ‘Really Wild About Poo’ quiz.
Chris says:
“I’m greatly looking forward to sharing my poo passion with zoo visitors. I spent years sniffing around for badger scats as a zoology student in the ‘80s and to this day remain fascinated by the stuff”.
Here are some scintillating facts to get you going…
• Wombats use their poo to help them mark territories and attract a mate so it is cubed shaped to prevent it rolling off rocks and logs
• Adele penguins ‘projectile poo’ in an attempt to keep their feathers free from bacteria
• Sloths are lazy about pooing only venturing down from branches once a week to do their infamous ‘poo dance’
• Nightingale poo is used to produce face masks, especially popular with geishas, believed to even skin tone and slow aging
• As they only digest around 45% of their diet elephants are capable of producing 100 pages of paper a day which can be manufactured from their fibrous dung
