When snails eat something with colour why is their poo that colour?
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Since you said please help, I will try to answer this question. A snail does not have the same kind of digestive tract as a more highly evolved species of animal. Therefore by nature, a snail being a more primative animal will lack certain enzymes which break down its food matter for absorbtion to provide fuel for its other living cells. This means that the animal can only extract some nutrients from its food source resulting in a partial digestion. therefore the feces from a snail may appear similar to the original food source both in texture and in color.
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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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the color of the food is recolored by the bile juice . bile juice absorbs the color pigments in turn produces yellow pigment that colors the material . \n10 points pls .
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It was probably something you ate or drank. My kids get bright green poop when they eat blue popsicles, kool-aid and if they eat lots of green veggies. The human body doesn't digest the blue dyes very well. If you didn't eat anything that could of caused it I would call your doctor.
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Why does poop stink?\n    Poop stinks as a result of the products of bacterial action. Bacteria produce smelly, sulfur- or nitrogen-rich organic compounds such as indole, skatole, and mercaptans, and the inorganic gas hydrogen sulfide. These are the same compounds that give farts their odor. \nWhy is poop brown?\n    The color comes mainly from bilirubin, a pigment that arises from the breakdown of red blood cells in the liver and bone marrow. The actual metabolic pathway of bilirubin and its byproducts in the body is very complicated, so we will simply say that a lot of it ends up in the intestine, where it is further modified by bacterial action. But the color itself comes from iron. Iron in hemoglobin in red blood cells gives blood its red color, and iron in the waste product bilirubin gives rise to its brown color. \nWhat other colors of poop are possible?\n    Poop is mostly shades of brown or yellow, but other colors can arise under certain circumstances. For example, someone with a bleeding ulcer might have tarry black poop from the presence of partially digested blood. Bleeding in the intestine, from an anal fissure or split, for example, can stain the poop red. Bloody poop can also be a sign of colon cancer, so you should get it checked out by a doctor if you see blood in your stool. Some illnesses in babies gives them green or even blue-green poop. But another source of blue poop in children is more innocent: it can come from eating a concentrated source of blue food coloring such as ice cream. Intense red food coloring can produce bright red poop. Sometimes brightly colored foods pass through the gut almost unchanged, and the turd may be speckled with bright red fragments such as pimentos, or bright yellow kernels of corn. \n    Poop can also be stained red if you eat beets, according to Ellen. \n    One can experience white poop after consuming a barium milkshake for the purposes of getting an x-ray of the upper gastrointestinal tract. \nWhat is the cause of yellow poop?\n    According to Michael F., one cause of this is Gilbert's Syndrome. "I have a benign condition known as Gilbert's Syndrome. It affects quite a few people, males mostly, in their teens+. It is a deficiency in the liver where red blood cells are broken down. I was informed when this was diagnosed that the broken down blood cells is what gives poop a lot of its color. People with Gilbert's Syndrome don't process as many blood cells - or not as fast - and their poop tends to be pale brown or yellow from the lower quantity of discarded red blood cell matter. This is especially true if there is less matter in your intestines (i.e., on a diet - as I have noticed) to remove the excess blood cells. Very frightening until you determine what is causing it. Gilbert's is a totally benign thing that doesn't harm anyone, although when a person is sick they can turn yellowish as if jaundiced, but it is not jaundice." \n    Another cause of yellow poop is a giardia infection. Giardia are tiny Protozoan parasites that can invade the intestines and result in severe yellow diarrhea. It is a dangerous and contagious affliction that doctors are obligated to report to the Center for Disease Control. \nWhat is the cause of green poop?\n    (Question submitted by ap, CrAzYMiC98 and several others) \n    I have consulted with a doctor, a physiologist and a microbiologist on this question, and the following summarizes their answers: \n    Healthy people can have green poop if they eat a diet rich in leafy green vegetables, or if they consume large quantities of food coloring (in ice cream, cake frosting etc.). \n    Green poop can also be caused by excess iron in the diet, from dietary supplements, for example. If the body does not absorb all the iron consumed, the iron may stain the poop green, the color of iron (II) salts. Ordinarily, the green color may be masked by the normal brown poop color, but if digestion is thrown off by illness
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It's a Gastropod. A kind of sea snail.
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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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The red color of crustaceans (and other marine animals, including salmon and certain types of algae)  is due largely to a pigment molecule called astaxanthin (see source).  In the shells of live crustaceans, this molecule is bound together with an protein (β-crustacyanin), which alters the shape of the astaxanthin molecule.  When bound together, this protein-pigment complex has a bluish color.  \n\nWhen you heat proteins, they denature, (i.e., they change shape), and in the case of shellfish, the β-crustacyanin "let's go" of the astaxanthin, which relaxes back to its normal structure and becomes red.
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Mammals don't see colors the way we do, for example it may be impossible to train them to choose one of two colors to get a food reward.  Insects often see UV light, which we don't, so two red flowers that look exactly the same to us could look 'great' due to UV markings and 'boring' due to no UV markings to an insect.
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It is called coryphagia (or similar, not sure spell check will get it) and it is due to a couple of possible reasons.  One is their incredible ability to smell can actually scent nutrients left in scat of wild animals and other dogs, or even in their own excrement.  Two has to do with the instinctive role as predators.  By ingesting waste from other animals, they may be able to mask or alter the scent of their natural wastes, thus aiding them in hiding their presence in an area.  Three, the dog may have some sort of nutritional imbalance it is looking to rectify in this way.  This may also be indicated by eating of plant leaves, which tends to indicate the dog senses something wrong in its digestive tract.\n\nAnd the final possible reason....dogs can be strange and gross and this is right up their with their obsessive licking of their genitals!  Now come over here and give sweet woogums a big sloppy kiss!
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Some Dude is correct.  Red coloration is attractive to birds.  Red fruit get's eaten by the birds and the fruid seed passes through the birds digestive tract to hopefully grow up in it's new location.\n\nThe flowers that are normally pollinated by birds instead of insects are usually red, to attract their pollinators.
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its the type of food and consistency they are eating that causes the change in stool colour\n\nAccording to website 1. \nIf your baby's stools are green and frothy she may be taking in too much lactose (the natural sugar found in milk), which happens if she feeds often, but doesn't get the rich milk at the end of the feed to fill her up. It may also be caused by overfeeding or underfeeding, or is a sign that your baby has a stomach bug.'\n\nAccording to Website 2.\nGreenish diarrhoea may mean that your daughter is suffering from a tummy bug and food has travelled more quickly than usual through her gut. Known as ‘rapid transit diarrhoea’, it might be green due to increased presence of one form of bile pigment
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Though there are kinds of snail which are carnivorous, the giant snails in Barbados are not. It has been reported that those large snails are destroying crops. Being an African giant snails, they are macrophytophagous herbivore meaning it eats a wide range of plant material, fruit and vegetables. Sometimes they eat sand, very small stones and even concrete as calcium source for its shell. They are as big as the thumb and being a snail, they move slow thus it would be easy to step on them or get away  from them just in case they will attack human though nothing has been reported of any human attack based on the fact that they are herbivores and does the plants attack at night.♥
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if I'm not mistaken,i saw on television some time back that it would be called gliding because a snail is considered to not actually touch the ground.this is because it actually deposits a thin layer of "slime"on which it "glides" (however slowly that may be) along the ground.hope this helps.
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because poop is brown
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There are many reasons why feces can be green. For one thing, it can be because of food you ate. Green, leafy vegetables contain chlorophyll, which can color the stool green. Foods that have certain kinds of additives, such as artificial flavors or colors, may also have a greening effect. It could also mean that the stool passed too quickly through the large intestine. If it continues, please see your doctor.
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Many animals advertise their poisonous nature with bright colors... just like the monarch! so they are not eaten