Download or read book The Poop Sleuth written by Gina Shaw and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The scoop on animal poop! Animals poop, that's a given. But what does this natural output say about what's going on inside an animal? Ask Sarah Putnam, the "Poop Sleuth" at Smithsonian's National Zoo. Sarah and the other scientists and assistants in her lab study animal scat—what it looks like, smells like, is made of—to learn about the health and well-being of the animals under their care and to help with the conversation of endangered animals in the wild.