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CHAPTER 1 POO

Brownies for breakfast again?

Koala joeys can’t digest gum leaves themselves. They eat soft gum leaf poo to get the bacteria they need—straight from their mother’s bottom!

A fossilized cockroach from the dinosaur age was found to contain wood particles. The wood was partially digested, but cockroaches of that time weren’t able to do that. Something else had eaten the wood first. The conclusion? The cockroach had lunched on dinosaur poo!

DINNER IS SERVED!

Rabbits and other small herbivores make a meal out of their own poo! It allows them to digest food further, so they get more nutrients the second time around.

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