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Many animals eat poop for various reasons. For some because it's important to their digestive process (rabbits). For some, because of less important reasons (do
by spywaregorilla 5y ago
Many animals eat poop for various reasons. For some because it's important to their digestive process (rabbits). For some, because of less important reasons (dogs).
- soperj 5y agoI think all ruminants need to eat fecal matter to get the digestive enzymes needed to process the plant matter in their area.
- aerostable_slug 5y agoI used to raise beef cattle. I was told the calves get inoculated from common water supplies, whether a natural watering hole or a trough.
- hilbert42 5y agoIt's not only cattle that get inoculated that way, yours truly was similarly inoculated in that manner. I won't go into vivid specifics except to say that when a toddler my horrified mother rushed me to hospital after I had eaten unmentionables off the street left by our four-legged brethren. I survived unscathed and asthma fee - a good test of the 'too much hygiene hypothesis' methinks. ;-)
- soperj 5y agoMy brother managed to survive asthma free without eating poop.
- datavirtue 5y agoHuman babies do the same thing. I'm sure there is a long list on this one.