{"id":210715,"date":"2025-01-08T14:49:24","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T14:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/08\/poop-is-on-the-menu-for-a-surprising-number-of-animals\/"},"modified":"2025-01-08T14:49:24","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T14:49:24","slug":"poop-is-on-the-menu-for-a-surprising-number-of-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/08\/poop-is-on-the-menu-for-a-surprising-number-of-animals\/","title":{"rendered":"Poop is on the menu for a surprising number of animals"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Feces don\u2019t get enough credit as food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The stinky stuff is not just an end product after food gets eaten, digested and finally discarded by animal guts. Poop can also be something nutritious, useful and actually eaten (again)<\/a> in its own right, three researchers point out in the December issue of Animal Behaviour<\/em>. Tallying just the examples from vertebrates reported in scientific journals, the authors document coprophagy in more than 150 species, from adult black bears to baby koalas.<\/p>\n\n\n