[3][4] Animals with communal latrines include raccoons, Eurasian badgers,[5] elephants,[6] deer,[7] antelopes,[8] horses,[1] and (prehistorically) dicynodonts (a 240-million-year-old site was called the "world's oldest public toilet").
[8][3] Elaborate "dungpile rituals" are reported for adult stallions,[1] and deer bucks,[7] which are thought to serve for confrontation avoidance.
[13] Latrines of herbivores, such as antelopes, play an important role in ecology by providing enrichment of certain areas in nutrients.
It is described that duiker and steenbok antelopes tended to defecate in exposed sites, generally on very sandy soil, while klipspringer preferred rocky outcrops, thus enriching the nutrient-deficient areas, as well as depositing plant seed there.
Nuisance raccoon latrines may be found in attics, on flat roofs, on logs, in yards and sandboxes, etc.