It does look a little like it, but in actuality it is discovered totally misshapen, a fetid clump of whale spew. Are you familiar with ambergris and its original usage in cologne/fragrance creation?
“Are you familiar with ambergris and its original usage in cologne/fragrance creation?”
yes.
used to find some on the beach after a hurricane/storm at low tide.
sold it for relatively big money back in the day…but now……
“You may not collect, keep, or sell ambergris because it is a part from an endangered marine mammal.”
Wow. Cool that you were able to discover it in the wild. On what shores did you find it? These days it seems with marine environmental problems and much awareness of ambergris value, odds in finding it is quite rare.
The “no collection” rule is rather ridiculous. This is not obtained from killing whales. It’s waste product just found floating about!
I heard somewhere that in an emergency, dried dung can be used for fire?? Yeah that’s right, I think it was Nat Geo about a tribe deep in the jungles. Any ways, I would assume one should also have cologne ready if using dung for fire? Phew!
Some dung when sufficiently dried out can be a substrate for making fire. And some might have an oily resin that has flammable tendencies.
Note that ambergris is highly processed until it’s an essential oil capable of parfumerie interests. It is both a fixative and an aroma. At that processed point it doesn’t smell much like it did in totally raw form. How people managed to figure out that such a transformation could happen… is a mystery.
Whoever decided about something that stinks like Fetid Roadkill Death from a half-mile away, “Hey, I wonder what that would taste like if I cracked it open and et the goop inside?”.
Wombat, they have a big lump of cartlidge in their rump that must be like an extruder. The cartlidge allows them to block their burrow. The burrow can be up to 600mm in diameter. Another interesting thing is they can run as fast backwards as they can forwards. When i was a kid we had them as pets. An injured one was left in an F100 over night the next morning there was no seat, it had been ripped to shreds.