Next time you’re tempted to turn your nose up at the sight of your pet rabbit tucking into fresh droppings, think again. Coprophagy apparently brings a whole host of benefits. You can find out for yourself next week at Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum, Tring, UK, and in Nicola Davies’s linked book*.
So what exactly is so good about eating faeces? Rabbits and other small herbivores munch their own soft faeces direct from the anus because they provide an essential source of nutrients, such as B vitamins produced by their own gut flora, or that could not be extracted from…
