guano
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Their collective body heat raises the cave’s temperature to a sweltering 106°F, and the piles of guano beneath them are deep enough to bury the Statue of Liberty to her waist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
"Our evidence suggests guano was central to the Chincha Kingdom's success, with the Chincha's maritime knowledge and access to the Chincha Islands likely reframing their strategic importance in the region."
From Science Daily ● Mar. 7, 2026
Their guano, or dung, can also be used as fertilizer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2024
The guano contained dozens of previously unknown viruses, including a new coronavirus, a relative of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19, the research team reports this week in Communications Biology.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 24, 2024
On the brown walls of the flattened, overlapping leaves of the sturdy fibered guano there was a picture in color of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and another of the Virgin of Cobre.
From "The Old Man and The Sea" by Ernest Hemingway
It has been estimated that Texas guanos alone consume 6,600 tons of insects each year.
From Time Magazine Archive
For the manufacture of high-class superphosphate only a certain number of raw phosphates are available, such as Curaçao and Somme phosphates, phosphatic guanos, bone-char, &c.
From Manures and the principles of manuring by Charles Morton Aikman
In long lines, as on Denderah's architraves, were bas-reliefs of beetles, turtles, ant-eaters, armadilloes, guanos, serpents, tongueless crocodiles:—a long procession, frosted and crystalized in stone, and silvered by the moon.
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Herman Melville
The following is a list of the more common nitrogenous and phosphatic guanos which have been used in the past or are at present in use.
From Manures and the principles of manuring by Charles Morton Aikman
As examples of these "crust" guanos may be mentioned Sombrero, Curaçao, Aruba, Mexico, and Navassa phosphates.
From Manures and the principles of manuring by Charles Morton Aikman
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