Why Do Some Animals Eat Poop?
Animals eat their own poop in order to gain extra access to nutrients or to microbes that help digest those nutrients.
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Show Notes
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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