Baby elephants and other newborn animals eat adult's poop which gives them the necessary bacteria that can become established in their guts and help them with their immune system. Now, there are trials trying to see if giving human infants a tiny amount of mom's poop and see if it will help infant. nature.com/articles/d41586-024

@Victor I’d love to have been a fly on the wall when that grant application was submitted :)

@MookyTroubadour Not too different than fecal transplants for older kids and adults. Taking feces from another person and transplanting it into another person to treat a variety of conditions, including: Recurrent Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) infections, Irritable bowel syndrome, Crohn disease, Constipation, and Ulcerative colitis. my.clevelandclinic.org/health/

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@Victor oh no- don’t get me wrong. I am aware of the science of it all. I’m just saying my inner nine year old would be laughing uncontrollably :)

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