Why are snails poo the colour of what they eat?
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i think it's because it has a simple digestive system, thier food do not gothrough a series of complex breakdowns like humans it just basically passes it out, so the food would most likely look similar to it's original colour since it was not alterd alot in digestion.\nthe snail's digestive system consists of five regions: the intake region (mouth and buccal cavity with radula and jaws), the pre-digestion region (oesophagus with salivary glands, lateral pouchs and crop), digestion region (three chambered stomach with the associated digestive gland), uptake region (intestine) and the excretion region (rectum and anus).
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Actually, the white in bird excreta is their urine. Birds excrete uric acid instead of urea, as their way of getting rid of nitrogen.\n\nBirds have a cloaca, a common passage for getting rid of waste, where the urine and scat mix before being excreted. The darker bits in bird messes are the scat.
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They do have taste buds and have a definite preference of one type of food over another.  Also, animals have an excellent sense of smell and that is an important component of how food tastes and determining if one thing is better to eat than another.
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snails have a shell, slugs doesn't
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My friend just rescue a baby squirrel, he want to raise it for a while, we check it every day, the poop is black almost the half size of peanuts and squirrel doop poops everywhere especial when they feel nervous, they don't cover  poops but it is OK not smelly, they always wash their face and clean their fur.
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Because of the broken down foods we eat and what the body does in order to mix and break down particles. The particles therefore are chunked into like a corn shape like we see in our crap or sometimes the particles become a reddish color if there is bleeding invlolved. In other cases, what we eat depends on what exits out!
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It's a common misconception that your food comes out either as pee or poop or some ratio depending upon it's state of matter before being eaten. In fact, the different sources of energy (i.e. fats and carbs) as well as proteins, undergo catabolism so much that the waste products are nothing like them at all. In any case, feces (poop) is what is never actually absorbed by your body. Anything that is taken up by the body and used is in the urine (pee). This is mostly water, salt, and urea (broken down proteins).
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they eat their own poop
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Mostly bile (a greenish, slimey liquid which aids in digestion) and discarded red blood cells. The combination of green and red gives poop its distinctive brown coloring.  It also contains dead or discarded cells, cellular waste, water and a coating of mucus to aid in its excretion.
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They have carotenoid (sp?) in their exo skeleton, (think beta carotene in carrots) so when they are cooked, it turns that reddish color.
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All birds eat a share of grit,sand and dirt to help with their digestion. There are also small insects you can't see but they can.
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I'll answer that with another question - how do you eat brown hamburgers, green lettuce, and red tomato and produce yellow urine?  Or the variously colored other bodily secretions we humans produce, including white milk?  The color of these secretions depends mostly on their molecular structure, which doesn't change depending on what you eat.  The body makes them by choosing only the elements it wants, and not using, say, some chewed up chlorophyll that happens to be in your stomach.\n\nThat said, milk (and other secretions) can take on a slight tinge of color from the diet, just because they are not completely "pure".  For example, if you eat a lot of carrots, your urine, and even your skin, can turn orange.  And a wild cow who actually does eat grass might have slightly green milk.  But the milk you actually buy in a store comes from cows who eat all sorts of unnatural things, and hardly any grass.  Besides, the fat globules that would hold most of the color are skimmed off and turned into butter and cheese (which are then artificially colored).\n\nWas that way more than you wanted to know? :-)
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This is actually a fair question.  First, 'poop' is brown because it is a mixture of green and rusty red.  The red comes from retired blood cells that are being excreted.  The greenish yellow is from bile, a substance present in your digestive system.  When there is significantly more bile than retired blood, the poo is more green (this is my many babies have green poo, their bodies aren't old enough to have retired enought red blood cells).  Bile 'overload' is somewhat rare, but is not a health issue.  If you experience abdominal cramping, dark/black stool or stool that is very thin (perhaps no thicker than a pencil) these can signs of very serious medical problems.  But for now, you're probably fine. Regards :)
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Snails are mollusks; that puts them in the same phylum as clams, oysters and cuttlefish.
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the snail's body needs to be moist all the time. the water not only protects the snail it also helps lubricate it. the salt absorbs the water from the snail's body.
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What you have been eating determines the consistancy of your poo. Eating nothing but salad? Lots of veggies? The higher water content makes your poo squishier, and thus it sticks to your bum. Eating lots of dairy and meat? you're pooing a brick, more than likely.
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There is no ONE kind of animal.... several species can see color to some extent and it is difficult to prove since animals can not tell us!!\n\nHowever go to this link and it will describe many animals that can see color to some extent.\nhttp://webexhibits.org/causesofcolor/17.html\nsome even better than humans (pigeons and mantis shrimp!)