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In the time it takes you to listen to this story, an elephant could empty its bladder about three times.

And despite being much smaller, so could an adult cat, and a goat, also a cow, because researchers find that all mammals that weigh more than six and a half pounds or so

take about the same time to pee, 21 seconds, plus or minus 13 seconds. The researchers videoed

various mammals urinating at Zoo Atlanta, and they found that once you get above the squirrel

mouse shrew level, Tinkle time does not scale with body size. It's good news for elephants who could

otherwise spend all day going number

one. Seems that larger animals have a longer urethra, the conduit that whisks the wee-wee away. That

difference in size is big enough that gravity starts to really weigh in. As a result, when jumbo

answers nature's call, he has a much faster flow than does mittens. Given the urethra structure, the researchers say that

the mammalian urinary system can be scaled up by a factor of 3,600 in volume without compromising its

function, the studies in the proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. This hydrodynamic finding

could help engineers design systems that rapidly drain

reservoirs, regardless of size. It also means if mittens and jumbo hit the head together,

they can come out at the same time. Thanks for the minute. For Scientific Americans,

60-second science, I'm Karen Hopkins.