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[-] [email protected] 83 points 3 weeks ago

Close! Actually they eat their mother's shit.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

3 koalas 1 cup

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Eat shit and thrive

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 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.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 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).

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

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

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