SEA CREATURE POOPS FOR THE FIRST TIME IN TWO YEARS

A momentous event took place in Toba Aquarium in Toba, Japan this week. At the aquarium is a tank of giant isopods – they are crustaceans that look like the little grey roly-poly bugs you see when you’re digging in the grass or the garden, except these grow up to 18 inches long. Anyway, on Tuesday, May 26th, the keeper of the facility’s five giant isopods discovered fecal matter in their tank. This was the first time since April of 2018 that even a trace of isopod poop had been found. Not much is known about the isopods, although it has become clear that despite their occasional outbursts of voracious eating, giant isopods have a very slow digestive process. Some have gone as long as six years between meals.
* Two years between poops? I’ve been there, pally.
* Keepers said it was also the first time they’d ever seen an isopod smile.
* I suppose they could give the isopods some laxative … if they could figure out where their mouths were.
* Wow. How slow are things at the Toba Aquarium?
* That must be killer on a date. “What do you do?” “Oh, every day it’s my job to check if the isopods have done poopy.”
* There’s so many great things about the world being so interconnected. Then there’s stories like this.