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.
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
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.
A fact well known to everyone who read Watership Down as a child.
So it’s like chewing cud, except it’s multiple passes of the same stomach instead of different stomachs.
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
They don’t have the mass to have multiple stomachs like a proper cow
I always knew shit eating grins were misunderstood. They were just happy about being efficient.
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.
Some can’t get enough and want it all