We can eat vegetation thanks to protozoans in our intestines
We were not born with these one-celled organisms,
As chicks, we ate the poop of adults to aid our digestion.
Location: Pacific Coast Highway, CADate photo taken: March 18, 2012
Sources: https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/California_Quail/overview
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK8325/#:~:text=Protozoa
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If you are reading and enjoying this blog, please consider supporting me on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/deeat8am, or purchase my current book, The Rhyming Guide to Florida Spiders (details at https://deeateightam.blogspot.com/p/rhyming-guide-to-florida-spiders-now.html). Thank you for being a reader and friend of Dee at 8 A.M.
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