Merde: Excursions in Scientific, Cultural, and Socio-Historical Coprology

Merde is an unusual (very unusual) and witty investigation into a subject you may always have wondered about—but didn't know quite what to ask.

History, biology, anthropology, culture, animal behavior—all of these are the real subjects of Merde. Why can some animals do it on the run, and others can't? Why does camel dung make good fires? What are the fascinating stories of the dung beetles?

Myths and legends, physical features, health and disease, uses for construction and as fertilizers—ev...