Ok, with the sometimes (or often 
) Incidents with Dogs & Cats they are pretty fastidious 'bout crapping. Same with other animals. (IE No $#!^ sticking to the fur). So why, as the most evolved and intelligent creatures, are we cursed with the need for hygine. I’ve never saw a monkey with a roll of TP. Nor a Cat with deodorant (No FDS jokes people). So why are our asses so ass-backwards?
It’s because our upright posture gives us cheeks, which trap unwanted material.
Evolution doesn’t neccesarily make things better, just more likely to survive their current living conditions.
That’s what I mean, how does our booty and related hygine problems make us more survivable?
Not to put too fine a point on it, but my puppy’s butt is generally clean. I often observe her to be curled up in a C shape and licking her butt. I would imagine that the former is largely due to the latter.
Now, having said that: even if you were able to easily contort into a comparable position, wouldn’t you really rather rely on toilet paper?
Our upright posture and associated freeing of the hands to use tools made us more survivable. The booty was just a side-effect, that had minimal impact on our survival rate.
There’s no such thing.
You have clearly never seen a buffalo or even a cow. Crap everywhere, all over the base of the tail and over the vagina. When they are moved onto green feed or legume pasture and get a mild case of scours they become even worse.
In general there are two types of herbivore faeces: pellets and slop. Sheep, rats etc extract most of the moisture from the faeces and this results in dry pellets that have no real capacity to stick. Cattle and primates are much less efficient at extracting moisture, and the result is slop that sticks to everything.
Humans crapping in the natural position, ie squatting rather than sitting, produce no more mess than any other animal with watery faeces.
Well I’ve never stared at their asses, per se. I guess this thread is closed then. :smack: