It’s not considered polite to talk about it, but we all do it. Some of us are in and out so quickly that nobody would even know we were gone. Others quietly get up from the sofa, tuck a newspaper ...

No matter what kind of animal you are, chances are you’re going to have to poop at one point or another. After the body takes in food and it passes through the digestive system, the leftovers your ...

Children with functional constipation often report that they do not feel the urge to defecate. A recent study has used colonic manometry to show that these children are aware of the urge to defecate, ...

I enjoyed Jason Bittel's article on sloths (23/30 December 2017, p 44). I was perplexed, however, by the statement that the reason sloths climb down to the forest floor to defecate, then bury the mess ...