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While coprophagy provides birds with essential nutrients, it also has a downside, Dr Drigo says, because birds can potentially harbour and transmit diseases to other birds and humans via their faeces.

From Science Daily • Mar. 12, 2024

"There's an urgent need to thoroughly explore how various forms of coprophagy impact avian gut microbiomes, affecting bird health across their different life stages and environments," she says.

From Science Daily • Mar. 12, 2024

According to a study published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the answer could be related to an unsavory aspect of mole-rat behavior: coprophagy, or the eating each other’s poop.

From Science Magazine • Aug. 27, 2018

And while Hart and colleagues' study didn't identify a relationship between coprophagy and compulsive or anxiety behaviors, an earlier 2010 study by Broox Boze in the Journal of Applied Companion Animal Behavior did.

From Scientific American • Jan. 21, 2018

After six months in prison, he began to show signs of mental alienation, with insomnia, loss of speech, and coprophagy.

From Criminal Man According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso by Lombroso, Gina