Why do animals eat their poop?

Fly
I know it’s gross, but while watching Emergency vets again this past weekend they did another episode on the strange things that animals eat and time after time they mentioned that some animals even eat their own poop. So for my blog this week I decided to find out why animals eat their poop.
According to animal poop animals actually eat their poop on a regular basis. The animals that they included are rabbits, rodents, gorillas, dung beetles, flies, and dogs. The reason that herbivores such as the rabbits and rodents eat their own poop is because their plant diet is hard to digest so the poop helps it to digest better. Dogs and flies eat their poop because it has protein in it which is good for the animals. Dogs especially likes cat poop because it has a higher level of protein in it. In general animals eat their poop because the poop contains vitamins that are produced by their intestinal bacteria and are unable to absorb them through the intestinal was so they obtain them by eating the poop.
Thank you for your interest in reading my blog. I know that it is very gross (even I had a hard time with it) but it was also interesting because I always scolded our dogs for even trying to eat their poop.

Rabbit