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n. - Eating feces.

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  • Love that he worked in the word coprophagy into ...
  • From coprophagy to predation: a dung beetle that kills millipedes
  • Now it turns out that terrestrial gastropods may have been into coprophagy for quite a long time, at least since dinosaurs were around.
  • Cecotropes are rich in bacterial protein, and this double digestion (coprophagy) enables the animals to utilize the fermentation products formed in the cecum.
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