Polar bears are pooping glitter, because bears in Canada are fancy - CNET

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It's decorative doo-doo fit for a disco. The polar bears at a Winnipeg zoo are pooping out glitter, and it's all like a terrible Mariah Carey movie up in there.

Zookeepers at the Assiniboine Park Zoo in Winnipeg, Manitoba, add different colors of glitter to the horse meat (Mr. Ed, nooooo!) fed to eight of the nine polar bears, CBC News reports.

Purple, red and gold are among the glitter colors, and the additive is plain old nontoxic craft glitter, the kind your Girl Scout might use to decorate a milk carton bank.

It doesn't harm the animals, and it allows researchers to identify which sample came from which furry friend.