Feces Consumption and Canine Evolution The anti-parasite hypothesis makes sense, but it does not explain why, when given the opportunity, dogs eat human feces. I first heard of this last year when ...

The large number of cases suggests that excrement entered the food system on a “surprising scale.” ...

For humans, feces are last on the list of things we’d place near our mouth. In the animal world, that reaction does not always apply. Coprophagy is the act of eating feces, and for many species it ...

“Poop is central to the story of how dogs came into our lives," write Duke University dog researchers Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods in their wonderful new book, Survival of the Friendliest: ...