--- title: Poo, wee and smells: rabbits that eat their droppings, dung beetles and the smelliest animals — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Poo, wee and smells: rabbits that eat their droppings, dung beetles and the smelliest animals», a lesson of the biology course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Your pet rabbit bends down and eats something straight from its own bottom. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/398-poo-wee-and-smells-rabbits-that-eat-their-droppings-dung-beetles-and-the-smelliest-animals/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / Poo, wee and smells: rabbits that eat… # Poo, wee and smells: rabbits that eat their droppings, dung beetles and the smelliest animals Lesson 398 of the biology course of Mova's primary school: 20 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/398-poo-wee-and-smells-rabbits-that-eat-their-droppings-dung-beetles-and-the-smelliest-animals/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/398-poo-wee-and-smells-rabbits-that-eat-their-droppings-dung-beetles-and-the-smelliest-animals/0/) — Your pet rabbit bends down and eats something straight from its own bottom. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/398-poo-wee-and-smells-rabbits-that-eat-their-droppings-dung-beetles-and-the-smelliest-animals/1/) — Not for a rabbit. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/398-poo-wee-and-smells-rabbits-that-eat-their-droppings-dung-beetles-and-the-smelliest-animals/2/) — It is a clever trick that gets twice as much goodness out of tough grass. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/398-poo-wee-and-smells-rabbits-that-eat-their-droppings-dung-beetles-and-the-smelliest-animals/3/) — Poo and wee are not just waste. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/398-poo-wee-and-smells-rabbits-that-eat-their-droppings-dung-beetles-and-the-smelliest-animals/4/) — A dung beetle rolls dung balls to feed its young, steering by the Milky Way. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/398-poo-wee-and-smells-rabbits-that-eat-their-droppings-dung-beetles-and-the-smelliest-animals/5/) — Whales poo near the surface and feed the ocean. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/398-poo-wee-and-smells-rabbits-that-eat-their-droppings-dung-beetles-and-the-smelliest-animals/6/) — Dogs leave wee on lamp posts as messages for other dogs. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/398-poo-wee-and-smells-rabbits-that-eat-their-droppings-dung-beetles-and-the-smelliest-animals/7/) — Smells are messages too. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/398-poo-wee-and-smells-rabbits-that-eat-their-droppings-dung-beetles-and-the-smelliest-animals/9/) — Scientists love droppings because they tell stories: which animals live in a wood, what they ate, and even how many penguins live on the ice, seen from space. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/398-poo-wee-and-smells-rabbits-that-eat-their-droppings-dung-beetles-and-the-smelliest-animals/10/) — Rabbits make two kinds of droppings, hard round ones and soft sticky ones, which they eat straight away so the food passes through the gut twice and more goodness is taken out of tough grass. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/398-poo-wee-and-smells-rabbits-that-eat-their-droppings-dung-beetles-and-the-smelliest-animals/11/) — A healthy rabbit makes hundreds of hard droppings a day. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/398-poo-wee-and-smells-rabbits-that-eat-their-droppings-dung-beetles-and-the-smelliest-animals/12/) — Dung beetles roll balls of dung away from the pile to eat and to feed their young, and scientists found that some use the Milky Way and the Moon to keep a straight line at night; they went straight even under a starry sky in a planetarium, a dome-shaped room that shows the night sky on its ceiling. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/398-poo-wee-and-smells-rabbits-that-eat-their-droppings-dung-beetles-and-the-smelliest-animals/13/) — Birds do not make watery wee; the white part of their droppings is their waste water turned into a paste, which saves water and weight for flying. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/398-poo-wee-and-smells-rabbits-that-eat-their-droppings-dung-beetles-and-the-smelliest-animals/14/) — Bird droppings piled up for centuries on islands were once mined as a rich fertiliser. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/398-poo-wee-and-smells-rabbits-that-eat-their-droppings-dung-beetles-and-the-smelliest-animals/15/) — Huge brown or pink stains of penguin droppings can be seen on satellite photos of the ice, and scientists use them to find and count penguin colonies; the colour comes from the krill and fish penguins eat. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/398-poo-wee-and-smells-rabbits-that-eat-their-droppings-dung-beetles-and-the-smelliest-animals/16/) — Giant pandas eat bamboo for many hours a day but digest only a small part of it, because their guts are short and made for meat, so they poo dozens of times a day and their droppings smell of fresh bamboo. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/398-poo-wee-and-smells-rabbits-that-eat-their-droppings-dung-beetles-and-the-smelliest-animals/18/) — Many animals use smelly sprays or oils to scare enemies, like the skunk and its African cousin the zorilla, and hoopoe chicks squirt smelly poo and a nasty oil at intruders, so predators remember never to try again. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/398-poo-wee-and-smells-rabbits-that-eat-their-droppings-dung-beetles-and-the-smelliest-animals/19/) — Dogs leave wee on posts and trees as messages telling other dogs who passed and when, so a walk gives a dog its news of the day. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/398-poo-wee-and-smells-rabbits-that-eat-their-droppings-dung-beetles-and-the-smelliest-animals/20/) — Cats bury their droppings to hide their smell from bigger animals and rivals, and a cat that stops burying may be stressed or unwell. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/398-poo-wee-and-smells-rabbits-that-eat-their-droppings-dung-beetles-and-the-smelliest-animals/21/) — Rangers and scientists study droppings, which hold bits of food, hair and even DNA, to learn which animals live in a place and what they eat; rabbit droppings are little round balls, deer droppings look like dark beans and fox droppings often hold fur and seeds. - ← previous: [Pests: mice in the kitchen, cockroaches, clothes moths, fleas and head lice](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/397-pests-mice-in-the-kitchen-cockroaches-clothes-moths-fleas-and-head-lice/) - next →: [Bites, stings and scratches: mosquitoes, wasps, ticks, dog bites and cat scratches](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/399-bites-stings-and-scratches-mosquitoes-wasps-ticks-dog-bites-and-cat-scratches/) - ↑ back to [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/)