Assertion: rabbit | /r/CapableOf | eat their own poop
Facets:
value: sometimes
type: DEGREE
value: in order to gain additional nutrition
type: PURPOSE
value: after digesting a meal
type: TEMPORAL
value: to squeeze
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: Do Rabbits Eat Their own Poop?
text: Rabbits are coprophagous i.e, they eat their own feces.
text: Since these food sources are difficult to digest, hares and rabbits must eat their feces so that food passes through their digestive tract twice and they can extract every last nutrient possible from their meals.
text: The grass and plants wild rabbits eat at dusk and dawn can be poor in nutritional value, so the rabbit will eat its own faeces to squeeze every last bit of nourishment.
text: They can dig sophisticated tunnels, grow to weigh more than 20 pounds, and even eat their own poop.
text: One rabbit behavior that is significantly less adorable: After digesting a meal, rabbits will sometimes eat their own poop and process it a second time.
text: Rabbits eat their own poop because they need to digest some of their food twice.
text: Because their all-plant diet is hard to digest, rabbits have also been known to eat their own feces.
text: Cottontail rabbit fecal matter resembles small pellets, and occasionally rabbits will eat their own feces in order to gain additional nutrition missed in their initial digestion.