White Sand Beaches Are Made of Fish Poop

 

Parrotfish poop out sand… and that’s just the beginning of what makes these guys weird. Subscribe! http://bit.ly/1FkxVLb ‖ Twitter! https://twitter.com/gross_science ‖ Tumblr! http://grossscience.tumblr.com/ ↓Want more info?↓ Absurd Creature of The Week post from Wired on parrotfish: http://www.wired.com/2014/08/absurd-creature-of-the-week-parrotfish/ (If you like Gross Science, you should be following this series by Matt Simon. It’s awesome.) The Bellwood Lab: http://www.bellwoodlab.com/ -- Host, Writer, Editor, Animator Anna Rothschild DP, Sound Elizabeth Gillis Many thanks to Dr. David Bellwood. Home Comforts Music Provided by APM IMAGES Humphead parrotfish Flickr/Tchami Plage Feuillere Wikimedia Commons/Smiley Protective Cocoon envelops Sleeping Parrotfish Getty Images/Reinhard Dirscheri aiga toilet women bg openclipart/jean_victor_balin aiga toilet men bg openclipart/jean_victor_balin GRILLED PARROT FISH Flickr/whologwhy SFX Cockroaches Freesound/StateAardvark­ (used with permission from author) Squeak Pack/squeak_10 Freesound/Corsica_S Swishes Freesound/pogotron Produced by WGBH for PBS Digital Studios