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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 week ago (11 children)

It's probably a gut microbe thing that aids in processing food more efficiently, right? Koalas eat their own shit as well - I think their mothers even feed them shit, iirc. I think it's not uncommon among herbivores.

[–] agamemnonymous 32 points 1 week ago (8 children)

They have two kinds of poop: the little cocoa pebble ones, and soft wet ones that look like grape clusters, called cecotropes. The cecotropes are partly digested, and they eat them to extract more nutrients the second go round.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (4 children)

So it's like chewing cud, except it's multiple passes of the same stomach instead of different stomachs.

[–] mnemonicmonkeys 1 points 1 week ago

Yes and no. Chewing cud only involves the first stomach for cows, since they just need to regurgitate it. It doesn't pass to the later stomachs until the grass is sufficiently broken down

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