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Why Do Some Animals Eat Poop?

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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:

  • Coprophagy: Consuming feces
  • Allocoprophagy: Consuming others’ feces
  • Autocoprophagy: Consuming one’s own feces
  • Fecal microbiota transplant: A treatment for C. diff that involves transplanting feces from a healthy individual into a patient.
  • Cecotropes: Also known as night poops, these are the soft, shiny pellets that rabbits excrete and then consume.
  • Pap: A special substance produced by mother koalas that their babies feed on during the transition from drinking milk to eating eucalyptus leaves.


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