• @Taniwha420
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    607 months ago

    A longer digestive system is necessary to properly break down plant cellulose. This is why some small herbivores are copraphagic (eat their own shit, like rabbits): it takes two times through to extract adequate nutrients.

    • Midnight Wolf
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      347 months ago

      I want to unlearn this, immediately

      • Dharma Curious (he/him)
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        177 months ago

        If it makes you feel any better, the poops they eat are different from the poops they don’t. It’d be like it half the time you pooped it was regular ol’ poop, but the other half of the time it was a nice piece of broccoli, or a snickers bar.

        • @Burninator05
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          127 months ago

          Is pooping snickers bars not normal for people?

        • @Taniwha420
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          97 months ago

          I suspect round one is like eating milk, and round two is a fine cheese. Or eating cabbage, and later experiencing it as a well-aged kimchi. I’m sure it’s full of probiotics.

      • Kairos
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        97 months ago

        Rabbit pellets are literally just other rabbit’s poop