Comment on Feces is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural.

• ClipperDefiance@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  That’s basically what rabbits do. From Wikipedia:

  Easily digestible food is processed in the gastrointestinal tract and expelled as regular feces. To get nutrients out of hard to digest fiber, rabbits ferment fiber in the cecum (part of the gastrointestinal tract) and then expel the contents as cecotropes, which are reingested (cecotrophy or refection). The cecotropes are then absorbed in the small intestine to use the nutrients. Soft cecotropes are usually consumed during periods of rest in underground burrows.

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  • SippyCup@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Humans may be unique among mammals for not eating our own shit, the shit of others, or just any random shit we find.

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    • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      any random shit we find.

      That’s not my experience during my college years.

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    • spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      My man hasn’t heard of ‘yellow soup’

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    • 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8155486/

      npr.org/…/frozen-poop-pills-fight-life-threatenin…

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  • NABDad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Guinea pigs too.

    You’ll be holding the piggie, and she’ll curl up and grab a fresh turd right from the source and chomp that up.

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  • dharmacurious@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’ve always wondered if the people who keep pet rabbits and teach them to use litter boxes are hurting the bunnies by preventing them from doing this. Or will the rabbits just eat clay-covered cecotropes?

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    • call_me_xale@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Bunny owner here, I can answer this!

      Rabbits produce two kinds of feces: normal “waste” feces and edible “cecotropes” or “cecal pellets”. They generally eat the cecotropes immediately after excreting them, and only drop the waste into their litterboxes.

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      • ryedaft@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        How do they know‽

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      • dharmacurious@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Do they deposit the cecal pellets in the litterboxes, or do they just do them any where they please and immediately munch on em?

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