If you're at a football game and you need to use the bathroom, what do you do? You head for the men's or women's restroom, that group of stall where we humans do our business. We humans, however, weren't the first to think of that! Animals, too, poop in group areas that are known as latrines.

Guanacos, relatives of llamas, pick out special pooping areas, or latrines, that are away from their grazing areas. The guanacos even take turns pooping—just as we humans wait in those long restroom lines during half-time. Males from other species, such as blackbirds and African dik-diks, also use latrines.

-from "Group Poop: Animal Bathrooms"

Kelly, the polar bear keeper, says the meat-eating polar bears have three poops a day, totaling 10 pounds. The poops are like large cowpies and are kind of rough. Polar bears squat to poop like dogs, and Kelly says she is always amazed at the places they find to poop: rock ledges, crevices, even a floating log! Female polar bears use latrines, and when they have cubs, females will keep the dens clean. Also, males will check out the females' poop to see if they are interested in breeding.

Keepers never enter the exhibit with certain wild animals because their behavior is unpredictable. When Kelly cleans out the poop from the polar bear exhibit—which involves cleaning out and filling the 1300,000-gallon pool every day—she uses food to attract the bears into a holding room, shuts the door, and only then enters the empty exhibit.

-from "Zoo Poop: Polar Bears and Poop"