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tetris11@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Close! Actually they eat their mother’s shit.

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  • difficult@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Image

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  • HiddenLychee@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Thank you! Annoyed by the lack of information elsewhere in the thread

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  • 20cello@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    3k1c

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  • Liz@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Elephants will eat each other’s shit. I’ve seen an elephant reach onto another’s anus and pull out some delicious shit to eat.

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    • Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Elephants and Koalas both aren’t ruminants but eat mostly leaves so there’s usually plenty of only partly digested plant material in their stool. I don’t think elephants technically need to do this though (unlike some smaller animals like rabbits which eat their own shit as an important part of their digestion process).

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      • I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Maybe it’s more social. A little fisting among friends, if you will.

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      • Liz@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I think they do it for the gut bacteria, but I’m not an elephant gut ologist.

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  • KingJalopy@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Eat shit and thrive

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