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Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 4 weeks agoClose! Actually they eat their mother’s shit.
HiddenLychee@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
20cello@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
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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.
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).
I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org 4 weeks ago
Maybe it’s more social. A little fisting among friends, if you will.
Liz@midwest.social 4 weeks ago
I think they do it for the gut bacteria, but I’m not an elephant gut ologist.
KingJalopy@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Eat shit and thrive
difficult@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
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