The outside latrines stink and the sewage runs into the surrounding bush.
In addition, the fact that individual feeding effort was equally distributed within and outside the latrine area indicates that latrines are not used to mark important feeding areas.
Each is equipped with an outdoor latrine.
Likewise, we divided the proportion of foraging time outside the latrine area by the relative proportion of the number of food patches located outside the latrine area to calculate an index of feeding effort outside the latrine area.
In Kisumu, the third largest city in Kenya, in the informal settlement we visited, a pig wallowed in the mud outside the latrine.
More than 90% of the surveyed households used their own excreta as fertiliser and a total of 94% composted the excreta before use, either inside or outside the latrine.
Ash is also stored in pots outside the latrine and at the tube well (Table 5).
We calculated the relative proportion of feeding time within and outside the latrine area for each focal individual.
We compared feeding effort within and outside the latrine area using Wilcoxon signed-ranks test for each focal individual.
To test the resource defense hypothesis with regard to defense of food, we investigated whether animals spent less time feeding within than outside the latrine area.
