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Animal digestion is not always complete. Often, useful nutrients remain in the voided material. Obviously, this is rarely a first choice, but between coprophagia (the technical term) and starvation, there is little hesitation.
Of course, a few animals are actually designed to eat their own feces. Rabbits, for example, have a sort of two-cycle digestion. The first pellets they leave are soft and green. They eat these, producing hard, dark pellets which are the true feces. If rabbits are prevented from eating their droppings (as with a wire bottomed cage), they can become ill. This really isn't much different from "chewing the cud" like cattle do, except that instead of being regurgitated from a special stomach, the partly-digested food is dropped out the back.
Some animals that eat feces of other animals include dung beetles, flies, certain species of birds like vultures, and some types of worms. This behavior is commonly known as coprophagy and helps these animals recycle nutrients from the feces.
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Are dogs feces organic or inorganic?
Dog feces are organic. They still have material in them that other animals would be willing to digest like bacteria or bugs.
Why do cats poop why do i poop?
Poop (feces) are the waste products of digestion and certain parts of cell respiration. The food people and animals (including cats) eat is not completely utilized in the digestion process and it passes out of the intestinal tract in the form of poop! The less efficient the animal at digesting it's food the more feces it produces...that's why cows, horses and other animals produce a lot more poop than other animals.
Are Carnivores animals that eat other animals?
Yes, carnivores are animals that can eat other animals. Any meat-eating animal is a carnivore.
What are meat-eating animals that hunt and eat other animals called?
Meat-eating animals that hunt and eat other animals are called carnivores.
What are animals that eat other animals?
Carnivores and omnivors
Does fecal matter eat other fecal matter?
Feces does not eat other feces. Feces is a byproduct of bodily waste and is not able to eat anything. All humans and animals defecate in order to release their waste.
Do dogs eat their own feces?
Dogs need something in their body when they eat their own feces and feces of other animals. They usually do not have a dietary dficiency but it could be some type of medical disorder.
Why do dog eat their own feces?
Dogs need something in their body when they eat their own feces and feces of other animals. They usually do not have a dietary dficiency but it could be some type of medical disorder.
Do baby elephants eat adult poo?
Baby elephants (as well as some other animals) eat the feces of their mother or other animals in the herd to obtain the bacteria they need to digest their food. Elephants digest plant matter in their gut using bacteria, and since elephants are born without this bacteria, they need to eat the feces of other elephants to obtain it.
How do animals scatter seeds?
Animals eat plants and the seeds are not digested. The seeds then get expelled by the animals in their feces.
Why do some animals eat feces?
To cover up their own scent or to remove the scent of other animals.
Why does an animal produce an animal and not a plant?
Plants produce plants and animals produce animals! what kind of questin is that.?
Do rabbit eat feces?
Yes, rabbits do indeed eat their own feces. Rabbits are vegans, and like most vegan animals, their digestive tract is not long enough to fully extract the nutrients from what they eat. So they will eat it again. Deer tend to like to eat rabbit feces too, so if you find a pile of rabbit feces, there may be deer nearby.
Why are there flies in the world?
There are flies in the world because they are decomposers. They eat the wastes of animals and people and the wastes that animals and people gives off, such as feces That is why you see them on feces around garbage cans.
Do tigers eliminate feces?
Yes, tigers do eliminate feces like all other animals. In the wild, they will typically do so in secluded areas to avoid attracting predators or other threats.
Can you eat your feces for breakfast?
Consuming feces for any meal is unsafe and unsanitary. Some animals will eat their own waste, such as dogs, but this is not considered a meal that anyone should eat. This can cause a person to become ill.
Why do Muslims eat feces?
Muslims do not eat feces. ______________________________________________________ I wonder of this question. Does the one asking this question know of any human of any other religion is eating feces? If no, why he considers Muslims are eating feces and just asking about the reason?!!
