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Ammonia has only one nitrogen per molecule, but it is quite toxic. It requires a great deal of water to be flushed out of the body.

Reptiles including birds go one step further, packaging their nitrogenous waste as uric acid. That white stuff you see from a bird or a snake it has less water in the poop.

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