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Like my Winnie, about 16% of dogs are “serious” poop eaters, repulsively caught in the act of eating feces more than five times, and deemed to have the fancier, scientific term of coprophagia.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 21, 2022

Veterinary behaviorists Debra Horwitz and Gary Landsberg highlight that although coprophagia could simply be a dog into eating poop, the behavior could have medical underpinnings, and a veterinarian should be consulted if there's concern.

From Scientific American • Jan. 21, 2018

Potter and Burgess somehow neglected to mention coprophagia in their rabbit stories.

From New York Times • Nov. 29, 2017

Other infections, such as hookworms and roundworms, can be transmitted in a practice called coprophagia, in which animals ingest one another’s stool or by licking each others’ anuses, Nandi said in an email.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 21, 2016

Were I afflicted with this peculiar ailment, this attenuated form of coprophagia, I should try to keep the hideous secret to myself.

From Alone by Douglas, Norman