Do spiders poop?

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Kids & Family, Education For Kids

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🗓️ 30 January 2024

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

When you have a pet, part of taking care of that pet is cleaning up after them. Whether it’s scooping dog doo-doo from the yard, cleaning caca from your cat’s litter box, or picking out the pellet sized poops from a hamster’s cage, dealing with dookie is part of living with animals. But one of our listeners is wondering…do spiders poop? Paul Shamble of Harvard University helps us understand.

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0:00.0	From the brains behind brains on, this is the moment of um.
0:05.0	Answering those questions that make you go. Ahh, um, um, um, um, um, um. Um, um, um. I'm Ruby Guthrie.
0:25.0	I'm Ruby Guthrie.
0:26.7	When you have a pet, maybe a dog or a cat
0:30.0	or even a hamster or an iguana,
0:32.3	part of taking care of that pet is cleaning up after them.
0:36.0	You know, they're poop.
0:38.0	Whether it's scooping dog-doo from the yard, cleaning caca from your cat's litter box, or peging out the pellet-sized poops from a hamsters
0:46.1	cage, dealing with dukee is just part of living with animals.
0:50.9	That's what led one of our listeners to ask this question.
0:54.0	My name is Adrian and I am from Louisville, Kentucky.
0:57.0	And my question is, do spiders poop?
1:00.0	Spiders definitely do poop and I can tell you this because here in our lab we have
1:07.7	tons and tons of spiders and we have them in little boxes in the lab and we raise
1:11.8	them and they have little
1:13.0	little jungle gyms to play on when they run around.
1:15.4	And really it's not very different from you
1:19.7	or from most of the other animals that you can think of
1:22.3	that do this.
1:23.0	They poop on just about everything.
1:25.0	I'm Paul Schambel.
1:26.0	I'm a biologist at Harvard University.
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