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Elephant dung uses. Yes there are uses!

Elephants produce a lot of dung! Up to 220 pounds or 99 kilograms a day! That's a lot of poop!

Let’s get a perspective here. A newborn elephant can weigh between 90-100 kgs! A giant panda average weight is 100 kgs. Humans can be so resourceful and have found many things to do with all that dung! Here are a few! As the old adage goes: “Waste not, want not!”

Elephant poop is very valuable! Bigger animals have longer faeces. And bigger animals defecate at higher speed. An elephant defecates at a speed of six centimetres per second, nearly six times as fast as a dog. For a few moments the fresh poo is shiny — that’s the light reflecting off the mucus. Then the mucus evaporates, and the poo takes on a dry dull appearance.

In Thailand, elephants are fed coffee beans, and after the fermentation process in their stomach, what comes out the other end is a sweet chocolatey and cherry flavour which is used to the produce what they call the rarest and very expensive coffee in the world called Black Ivory Coffee. Photo: Thrive Global

Indlovu Gin made with botanicals foraged by elephants that is sourced from their dung.

Poopoopaper is one of the companies who make paper products from elephant dung.

Sankt Gallen Brewery makes elephant beer from the same processes used to make coffee. The excreted coffee beans undergo alcoholic fermentation.

Burning dried up elephant poo makes an excellent mosquito repellent.

35 grams of Black Ivory Coffee made from elephant dung, will cost you US$119.

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