Rome’s Biopark Zoo is showing off the “natural history of the unmentionable” with an exhibit exploring the history of excrement and the important roles it plays in human and other life on Earth.
The exhibit, which runs through June 30th, has 10 interactive areas, from 3D installations to realistic models of all kinds of feces – including two fossils of dinosaur poo.
The zoo’s president, Federico Coccia, explains the reason for the exhibit: “Poo is life…Without animal poo, there wouldn’t be fertile ground and so there wouldn’t be trees, oxygen, food … there wouldn’t be any life.”
Although the exhibit is mostly aimed at children, organizers say that adults can also learn that “few other materials have a similar variety of uses…Poo is a source of food, a communication method, a means of identification, of fuel, a construction material, fertilizer, a hiding place, and so on.”
