• agamemnonymous
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    2 days ago

    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.

    • Voroxpete
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      1 day ago

      A fact well known to everyone who read Watership Down as a child.

    • Hegar@fedia.io
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      2 days ago

      Ah, fascinating! We had a bunny growing up and I always remember her eating the little pebbly poop, but I’m probably just remembering wrong.

    • Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca
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      So it’s like chewing cud, except it’s multiple passes of the same stomach instead of different stomachs.

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        22 hours 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