Not just me … This past week St. Louis learned what baby elephants snack on.
If you don’t want to click the listen button, I can just tell you. It’s poop. They snack on their mother’s poop. They aren’t born with gut bacteria, so they have to ingest it somehow.
This seems like something i should have learned from Big Dot on Travelskite.com. Perhaps I did and then punted it right out of my head.
4 responses to “TWIL: baby elephant snack foods”
Koalas, too! Gotta get the gut bacteria to digest notoriously-indigestible eucalyptus leaves *somehow* and… well. That’s how, a particular bit of koala fecal matter produced at the correct time.
KC – Well, also, Koalas seem lazy. Why look for vegetation when the poop is right there on the ground?
I’m ashamed to confess I didn’t know that about elephants, despite having been up close and personal with a few of them. Does having my toes sucked by a baby rhino count? http://www.travelskite.com/2013/09/a-rhino-sucked-my-toes.html
Big Dot – Did you have poop on your toes, perhaps?