guano
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Their collective body heat raises the cave’s temperature to a sweltering 106°F, and the piles of guano beneath them are deep enough to bury the Statue of Liberty to her waist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
The island's distinctive white colour comes from bird droppings - also known as guano - which coat the surface and give it a distinctive smell.
From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026
"Together, the chemical and material evidence we studied confirms earlier scholarship showing that guano was deliberately collected and used as a fertilizer," Dr. Bongers said.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 7, 2026
Their guano, or dung, can also be used as fertilizer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2024
The rocks below the bats were slubbered with wet, greasy guano, a spinach- green paste speckled with gray blobs, which reminded me of oysters Rockefeller.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
It has been estimated that Texas guanos alone consume 6,600 tons of insects each year.
From Time Magazine Archive
A manure closely resembling in the percentage of its manurial constituents the older rich guanos is thus obtained.
From Manures and the principles of manuring by Charles Morton Aikman
According to Boussingault, some guanos contain small quantities of nitrates.
From Manures and the principles of manuring by Charles Morton Aikman
Ammonia and phosphates, soluble and insoluble, are costly; and by far the larger part of the value of all guanos, and the common manufactured manures, depends on them.
From Elements of Agricultural Chemistry by Thomas Anderson
Up to the present time, guanos and phosphates are all but unknown in these regions, only farmhouse dung is used, cows being partly kept for that purpose.
From In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" by Matilda Betham-Edwards
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