SCIENCE
ECOLOGY
Question
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Autotroph
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Hetrotroph
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Coprophagous
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Saprotroph
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Detailed explanation-1: -Coprophagia is the term for an animal eating excrement-both their own and that of others. Dung beetles, rabbits, chimps, and domestic dogs are among animals that are members of the dung diners’ club.
Detailed explanation-2: -A coprophagous organism is one that eats the faeces/excrement of another animal. Many insect species are coprophagous and often specialise in the consumption of faeces from large herbivores. Some of the most well-known coprophagous insects are the dung beetles.
Detailed explanation-3: -Dung beetle, fly, and termites are examples of coprophagous insects. Termites feed on one another’s feces to obtain symbionts (hindgut protists, e.g. genus Pseudotrichonympha) that help them digest the cellulose component of wood.
Detailed explanation-4: -Abstract. Coprophagy is performed by rodents and lagomorphs and to a lesser degree by piglets, foals, dogs and nonhuman primates. Due to the construction of the digestive system of rodents and rabbits, coprophagy is necessary to supply many essential nutrients.
Detailed explanation-5: -Coprophagy is the eating of feces. While the behavior is normal for the young of most species, probably to help them establish intestinal flora, and for the dams of young of some species, to keep the nest area clean, it can occur for less desirable reasons.