Did you kow that some Animals eat their Poop? and do you know why?

The feeding mechanism that involves an animal releasing metabolic waste and turns around to eat the same poop is called coprophagia.
-Exmples of sarcophagic animals
-lagomorphs- rabbits, hares and pikas
-rodents- mice, rats, hamster, naked mole rats, chinchillas and guinea pigs
primates- including gorillas, orangutans and rhesus monkeys
-Dogs
-baby elephants
-hippopotamus calves
Reasons for coprophagia
-Help the animals access nutrients they couldn't digest during the first eating process
-Herbivorous use coprophagic behavior to obtain essential nutrients produced by microbes present in the digestive tract
-Elephant and hippo calves eat their mothers' or fellow herd members feces during their transition from milk to solid food -consumption. This process helps the calves to establish healthy bacterial communities in their guts, which, in turn, aids normal digestion.

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