When you gotta go, you gotta go
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In the remote, hard-to-reach cloud forests of Costa Rica, is where you’ll find the rarest of toilets. Up there, quite literally among the clouds, is where you’ll find a communal bathroom shared by a variety of mammals high among the canopy, built into the branches of a strangler fig tree.
The team set up some camera traps to capture footage of the animals relieving themselves all over the tree, proving that there is a fine line between research and being a criminal perv with a toilet cam fetish. The recorded 17 different mammals visiting a single site, including porcupines, kinkajous, monkeys, and margays. The tree averaged a few visits a day, suggesting that this was routine behavior and not just random chance. To several mammal species in the region, this was not a tree: it was a gigantic toilet.
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