excrete
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In 2022, Dudley worked with collaborators in Panama to show that wild spider monkeys consume fermented fruit containing alcohol and later excrete alcohol metabolites in their urine.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 1, 2025
The body can then easily excrete the metals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2024
Excess sugar consumption also causes the body to excrete excess calcium, instead of reabsorbing it in the kidney as the body normally would.
From Salon ● May 1, 2024
To mark their territory, both beaver species deposit mud piles on the ground and excrete castoreum on top.
From National Geographic ● Nov. 15, 2023
I looked up as I ran under some trees, otherwise peafowl might excrete on me.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
When water is lost, the body also excretes key electrolytes such as potassium and sodium.
From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2025
They discovered N. intermedia produces and excretes many enzymes as it grows.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 14, 2024
It then excretes a sticky, sugary waste called honeydew that attracts insects and a form of sooty mold that can finish off the already weakened plants, posing a danger to crops and native trees.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 28, 2023
She added that researchers have yet to find a species that, when infected, excretes much live virus in its feces.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2023
“He excretes in prodigious amounts, Karen, not seen on the earth since prehistoric times when dinosaurs let fly,” Ben said.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
He explains that if you eat too much, it has to be excreted by the kidneys and liver which can become overloaded.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
“Most of it doesn’t get metabolized, meaning that we don’t extract energy from it, and it passes through and is excreted in the stool,” Fetter said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 24, 2026
For one, there are many different kinds that all look different, and evidence of parasitic infection can be excreted as parasitic larvae, which are microscopic.
From Salon ● May 18, 2025
One of the study's most significant findings is that these particles can be excreted renally, presenting a breakthrough in elimination pathways associated with injectable, synthetic biomaterials.
From Science Daily ● May 10, 2024
Whatever it was, it excreted like a mountain lion.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
Camels help it spread by eating the pods and excreting them far and wide.
From Barron's ● Nov. 12, 2025
He was excreting things he had never seen in his stool before and feeling things he had never felt before.
From Salon ● May 18, 2025
Researchers have long known that mammals and birds can play a key role in spreading seeds, often by eating fruit and then excreting the seeds.
From Science Magazine ● May 8, 2024
It also is exceptional at urination, excreting the human equivalent of 2,500 gallons of urine a day.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2023
Human beings in there were excreting into steel helmets which were passed to the people at the ventilators, who dumped them.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
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