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Some tadpoles don’t poop for weeks. That keeps their pools clean

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Eiffinger’s tree frogs live in Taiwan and on two Japanese islands.

The tadpoles store their poop in an intestinal pouch until they start to metamorphize into full-fledged frogs.

The behavior likely serves to prevent contamination of small water bodies, says researcher Bun Ito .

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