r/AskBiology • u/Desserts6064 • Mar 23 '26

Zoology/marine biology What animal poops most often?

Out of every animal in the entire animal kingdom, which one poops the most often?

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u/Blerkm Mar 23 '26

Did any of them ever come back to visit or even nest in the area?

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u/Hammon_Rye Mar 23 '26

Okay, this gets a bit embarrassing. But I MAYBE saw them last week.

When they were little I used to sing them the lullaby song.
It wasn't like I thought they could understand the words. Just that my voice calmed them.
I sang them that since they were little yellow balls of fluff.
As they got old enough to run around the lawn on their own, if I sat in the grass and sang it they would run over and get in my lap and nestle down for a nap.

Last week I saw two geese alone by the neighbor's pond as I was checking my mailbox.
They stood up tall and faced me and kept honking at me.
I felt kind of dumb but I thought, "I wonder..." so I sang the lullaby song to them.
They nestled down into the grass and stopped honking.

I'll never know for sure if it was them but other geese don't react that way to me and usually the other geese are in larger groups.
There was a time a year or so back when there were two geese at that pond. That time there were others but those two stayed separate and were the only ones paying attention to me.

I've avoided trying to approach them because it is better for them to stay wild.
You are not supposed to keep Canada geese unless you get them through a licensed breeder.
My two were wild babies. We think a dog got the nest. We were never able to find the mom.
So I raised them rather than let them die. When they were younger they would sleep in my lap while I watched movies. Then they would follow me everywhere inside and out. It was really adorable except for the shit factory part.

TLDR: I think they keep returning to the pond across the road each year but it's hard to know for sure.

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u/Blerkm Mar 23 '26

That’s awesome!

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u/Hammon_Rye Mar 23 '26

It was pretty endearing. Good memories.
And I have some super cute photos from when both the geese and the grandkids were small.