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When animals eat other animals whole, how does the predator not get sick from any feces in the prey animal?
gpt
Most animals actually eat their own feces regularly, it's called coprophagia. This is a mechanism by which they can repopulate their guts with microbes. So they would be pretty resilient from feces in another animal! Plus those animals (and reptiles like snakes) likely have very acidic digestive tracts or very potent enzymes to break all that foreign material down.