{"id":5558,"date":"2011-05-25T05:32:39","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T12:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=5558"},"modified":"2011-11-08T23:14:44","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T07:14:44","slug":"why-animals-sometimes-eat-their-poop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/05\/why-animals-sometimes-eat-their-poop\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Animals Sometimes Eat Their Poop"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/why-animals-eat-poop.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5559\" title=\"why-animals-eat-poop\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/why-animals-eat-poop.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/why-animals-eat-poop.jpg 558w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/why-animals-eat-poop-340x263.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>##EMBED##<\/p>\n<p>Animals such as dogs, rabbits, rodents, gorillas, etc. often eat their poop to maintain proper health.  For animals like rabbits, who eat a lot of plants, their poop contains quite a bit of undigested plant matter; so eating their poop is a nice easy way to get more out of the food they have available.\u00a0 For other animals, like dogs, their poop can also be very vitamin rich with the bacteria in their intestines producing essential vitamins they wouldn\u2019t get otherwise.\u00a0 Dogs particularly like cat poop because it is very high in protein.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/11\/why-poop-is-brown\/\">Click Here for Sources and to Learn Why Poop is Brown<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>##EMBED## Animals such as dogs, rabbits, rodents, gorillas, etc. often eat their poop to maintain proper health. For animals like rabbits, who eat a lot of plants, their poop contains quite a bit of undigested plant matter; so eating their poop is a nice easy way to get more out of the food they have available.\u00a0 For other animals, like [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[642,1356,276],"class_list":["post-5558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-animal-facts","tag-eat-poop","tag-poop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5558"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7167,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5558\/revisions\/7167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}