By Sean Mowbray The vicuña’s social habit of pooping in the same place could help Andean ecosystems adapt as glaciers rapidly ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Vicuñas, wild relatives of llamas in the Andes, contribute to ecosystem adaptation to climate change by depositing nutrient-rich dung in communal latrines. This ...

Climate change is melting away glaciers around the world, but in the Andes Mountains, a wild relative of the llama is helping local ecosystems adapt to these changes by dropping big piles of dung.

Climate change is melting away glaciers around the world, but in the Andes Mountains, a wild relative of the llama is helping local ecosystems adapt to these changes by dropping big piles of dung.

Relatives of the llama are dropping dung as they venture into higher elevations in the Andes Mountains, providing a nutrient-rich environment for life to thrive despite glacier loss. Climate ...