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Article: ANIMALS EAT THE WEIRDEST STUFF!
- Article from:
- Ranger Rick
- Article date:
- February 1, 2000
- Author:
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By sucking a sweaty sneaker, butterflies get a salty drink. They also sip from soupy dead animals, moist poop, and pools of pee. Many other animals drink and eat some really weird things. Just look!
Plenty of animals eat poop. And why not? The droppings from one creature contain food that other creatures can use. What's more, poop is plentiful, easy to find, and it doesn't run away or fight back.
Some insects, such as the cottonstainer bug and its young in the photo below, feed on the juicy droppings of birds. Dung beetles prefer mammal poop. They even lay their eggs in it. When the young hatch, dinner is waiting.
Several kinds of fish devour ...
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August 6, 2002 ;
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