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excrete

[ik-skreet] / ɪkˈskrit /


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In 2022, Dudley worked with collaborators in Panama to show that wild spider monkeys consume fermented fruit containing alcohol and later excrete alcohol metabolites in their urine.

From Science Daily • Dec. 1, 2025

He’s heard that by exposing it to the perfect cheeseball pop song — upbeat, sincere — it will excrete a natural hallucinogenic: a profitable slime.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2024

They are also essential to the preservation of tropical forests, with 70 to 90 percent of their tree species depending on frugivores to eat, spread and excrete their seeds.

From Salon • Apr. 18, 2024

To mark their territory, both beaver species deposit mud piles on the ground and excrete castoreum on top.

From National Geographic • Nov. 15, 2023

He says it helps the body excrete stress hormones.

From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram




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