However, these Coprophagic dogs are not indiscriminate.
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Mice are Coprophagic, which is a fancy way of saying that they eat
one another's feces.
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This apparently trivial observation actually led the researchers to
hypothesize a reason why some dogs are Coprophagic.
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When we focus on those dogs who are clearly Coprophagic, we find that the dogs who eat poop tend to do it often.
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The second survey looked at only
1552 dogs that were confirmed as being Coprophagic and was designed to explore the reasons behind the behavior.
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If that second survey is a true representation of Coprophagic dogs, then female dogs are
nearly twice as likely to be Coprophagic(61 percent versus 39 percent for males) and this is a statistically significant difference.