What is so great about whales? This scientist says it’s their poop

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By Samantha LarsonAug 25, 2015, 5:23 am86 pts
“I have an unhealthy — or, I would like to say, healthy — obsession with poop,” says marine biologist Asha de Vos. Specifically, she’s stuck on kind that comes out of blue whales living off the coast of her homeland, Sri Lanka; in fact you could even say she built her career on a pile of this shit.…

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