Coprophagia is the eating (by insects and certain animals) of what?
Coprophagia so to allow tough plant materials to be digested more efficiently by passing twice through the digestive tract. Other species may do so only under unusual conditions. Coprophagia has been observed in some people with schizophrenia and pica. Coprophagous insects consume and redigest the feces of large animals. These feces contain substantial amounts of semi-digested food, particularly in the case of herbivores, owing to the inefficiency of the large animals' digestive systems. Two feces-eating insects are certain species of fly and the dung beetle. In regards to the dung beetle, their diet is mainly in the form of the microorganism-rich
Coprophagia Russian writer Vladimir Sorokin's novel "Norma" describes a society where coprophagia is institutionalised and mandatory. Coprophagia Coprophagia () or coprophagy () is the consumption of feces. The word is derived from the Greek κόπρος "copros", "feces" and φαγεῖν "phagein", "to eat". "Coprophagy" refers to many kinds of feces-eating, including eating feces of other species (heterospecifics), of other individuals (allocoprophagy), or one's own (autocoprophagy) – those once deposited or taken directly from the anus. In humans, coprophagia has been described in individuals with mental illnesses, as well as an unconventional sexual act since the late nineteenth century. Some animal species eat