It's not as colorful as, say, unicorn poop, but it does sparkle:
It’s a diet of insects that puts the shine in bat guano. Insects’ exoskeletons, or hard outer coverings, are made of chitin. Chitin is chemically a lot like plant cellulose; it’s difficult to digest, and passes through a gut relatively unchanged...You learn something every day.
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What about rabies?
ReplyDeleteInteresting fact... while cellulose provides the structural support for plants, chitin provides the structural support for mushrooms and other fungi.
ReplyDeleteYou learn something every day. Tx.
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