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• Like all lagomorphs (rabbits, hares, pikas), the American pika creates, expels & eats cecotropes (cecotrophy) to get more nutrition from its food.
• The act of eating cecotropes is known as cecotrophy (caecotrophy, cecophagy, pseudo-rumination, refection), again as distinct from coprophagy (the eating of feces proper).
• In this hindgut fermentation, the material from the cecum is expelled as "cecotropes" and are re-ingested, a practice referred to as cecotrophy.
• Like all lagomorphs (rabbits, hares, pikas), Pallas's pika creates, expels & eats cecotropes (cecotrophy) to get more nutrition from its food.
• But to get nutrients out of hard-to-digest fiber, lagomorphs ferment fiber in the cecum (in the GI tract) and then expel the contents as cecotropes, which are reingested (cecotrophy).

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