Poop Transplants!

Strength in numbers - species numbers! - is key to the health of ecosystems ranging from potato fields to rivers to the inside of your gut.

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Created by Henry Reich
Animation: Ever Salazar
Production and Writing Team: Alex Reich, Peter Reich, Emily Elert
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