A variety of jungle animals all use one type of tree as a latrine

A variety of jungle animals all use one type of tree as a latrine

In the cloud forest of Costa Rica, many canopy-dwelling animals do their business in strangler fig trees, perhaps as a way of leaving messages

How All Jungle Animals Use One Unique Tree as Their Toilet

Northern tamandua (a type of anteater) using a fig tree toilet Tropical Canopy Ecology Project Numerous arboreal mammals, such as opossums, three-toed sloths, and ocelots, share unique latrines found high within forest canopies. Jeremy Quiroz Navarro, an independent ecologist from Costa Rica, initially discovered one of these latrines 30 meters above a Strangler fig tree [...] The post How All Jungle Animals Use One Unique Tree as Their Toilet a…