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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sometimes, dogs do strange things. Beyond rolling in mud puddles or biting themselves, your pet might drink from toilets or lick ...

Feces don’t get enough credit as food. The stinky stuff is not just an end product after food gets eaten, digested and finally discarded by animal guts. Poop can also be something nutritious, useful ...

When miniature dachshund Valerie was captured after 529 days alone in the wilds of Australia’s Kangaroo Island, experts speculated she survived partly by eating other animals’ poo. While this survival ...

Dr. Michael “Dr. T” Tokiwa is a practicing small-animal veterinarian, hospital owner, mentor, and advisor who believes great medicine starts with trust—and grows through collaboration. Dr. Michael “Dr ...

When you let your dog outside to goto the toilet, do you notice that they sometimes turn around and eat their own poop? Despite what you might be led to believe, the act is much more common for pets ...

“Poop is central to the story of how dogs came into our lives," write Duke University dog researchers Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods in their wonderful new book, Survival of the Friendliest: ...

Climate change is melting away glaciers around the world, but in the Andes Mountains, a wild relative of the llama is helping local ecosystems adapt to these changes by dropping big piles of dung.

For humans, feces are last on the list of things we’d place near our mouth. In the animal world, that reaction does not always apply. Coprophagy is the act of eating feces, and for many species it ...

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