"Pick up the dung." Zhao Yiyi spoke first.
"What the heck?" General Wang was stunned for a moment.
The sea monster raised its tentacles. Several tentacles cradled a huge pile of things picked up from the bottom of the pool and dumped them all into the Feeding Room!
They were all blocks about the size of shoeboxes, pale yellow like cheese. Piles upon piles of cheese-like blocks were continuously collected by the sea monster, accumulating into a small mountain in the Feeding Room.
"These yellow blocks are all the sea monster's dung!" Zhao Yiyi explained, pointing at the surveillance screen.
"Square-shaped feces?" General Wang said thoughtfully. "I heard that wombat feces are square-shaped, so the sea monster's digestive tract may have a structure similar to a wombat's digestive tract—four-ridged intestines with little elasticity."
"No... That's not it." Zhao Yiyi explained, "The sea monster's dung is very loose and crumbly when it first comes out. Afterward, it uses its tentacles to organize the feces, spending more than an hour forcefully kneading it all into giant dung bricks. Every day, when it eats, it throws all the dung bricks to us!"
"It has a habit like that?" General Wang was dumbfounded. "It specifically kneads its feces into square bricks?"
"Intelligent animals can have some strange quirks. Maybe it just wants to keep its home tidier, similar to humans cleaning their houses." Xiang Xiaotong smiled.
Zhao Yiyi picked up the intercom and pressed the button. "The dung is out. Go collect it!"
"Copy that. We'll go get the dung right away!" someone responded.
A group of keepers pushed Small Flatbed Carts into the workroom. After waiting for the water in the Feeding Cabin to be drained, they opened the Feeding Door and began unloading the Dung Bricks.
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