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 ...

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 ...

While this survival tactic may have saved the resilient sausage dog, it highlights a behaviour that makes many dog owners ...

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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 ...

Hart and his colleagues hypothesize that canine feces-eating is essentially an obsolete trait that modern dogs inherited from their ancestors, grey wolves. They argued that the consumption of feces by ...

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“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: ...

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