2024 / 2025 Senior Secondary Biology Field Trip

3. Big secret of the cow dung microhabitat

Cow dung is a unique microhabitat with obvious physical changes in different stages. Depending on its freshness, the type and number of organisms living inside the cow dung vary. Students learn about the micro-succession in cow dung by observing and recording the organisms in the sample collected.

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