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It appears that some of our scientific scholars have, perhaps unintentionally, joined the thrum of world leaders, activists, and others who have mocked U.S. President Donald Trump. And they’ve done it in their own way.

A study published in Nature Scientific Reports has featured a drawing of Donald Trump’s face superimposed on a clipart picture of monkey feces.

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Titled ‘Methylation-based enrichment facilitates low-cost, noninvasive genomic scale sequences of populations from feces’, the report details a novel method to identify an animal’s genotype without hurting or capturing it, instead using its faeces (in this case, monkey’s faeces) to isolate the DNA.

The study includes an illustration demonstrating the process in which DNA is isolated which begins with a picture of a monkey that appears to have just defecated. The image of the feces in the diagram is too small to make out any detail in the drawing.