We share clear, simple English stories about the world. This episode explains how bare-nosed wombats produce cube-shaped droppings. The cubes take shape inside the wombat’s…
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Welcome to Curiosus, part of Slow English FM. We share clear, simple English stories about the world. This episode explains how bare-nosed wombats produce cube-shaped droppings.
EmmaThe cubes take shape inside the wombat’s intestine. Research shows that parts of the intestine wall differ in stiffness. Those differences help form the corners.
That is how these unusual droppings get their shape.
Vocabulary in this episode
- bare-nosed wombats
This episode explains how bare-nosed wombats produce cube-shaped droppings.
A kind of wombat with a nose that has no fur.
- cube-shaped
This episode explains how bare-nosed wombats produce cube-shaped droppings.
Having the form of a cube, with six square sides.
- droppings
This episode explains how bare-nosed wombats produce cube-shaped droppings.
Animal waste that leaves the body.
- droppings
That is how these unusual droppings get their shape.
Animal waste that leaves the body.
- take shape
The cubes take shape inside the wombat’s intestine.
The cubes form or develop their shape there.
- intestine
The cubes take shape inside the wombat’s intestine.
The long organ inside the body where food is digested.
- intestine
Research shows that parts of the intestine wall differ in stiffness.
The long organ inside the body where food is digested.
- stiffness
Research shows that parts of the intestine wall differ in stiffness.
How hard it is to bend or press the intestine wall.
- form the corners
Those differences help form the corners.
Those differences help create the cube’s corner parts.