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To: Lucas McCain

All rabbits do that out of necessity.

The pellets you see it eating are not technically feces.

They’re special ‘pellets’ the rabbit produces to maximize digestion of certain nutrients that they cannot obtain, otherwise.

If a rabbit is placed in a pen where all the droppings fall through the screen and it cannot eat these pellets, it will die.


26 posted on 08/11/2012 2:31:25 PM PDT by Salamander (I laugh to myself at the men and the ladies who never conceived of us billion dollar babies.)
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To: Salamander

Actually, it’s not the little pellets that they eat, it’s the cecotropes (wet and nasty stuff) that they eat directly from the anus. Yummy!


31 posted on 08/11/2012 2:43:51 PM PDT by Lucas McCain ("The day may come when the courage of men will fail, but not this day.")
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