An Eastern cottontail pauses mid-forage, rising to scan the woods before disappearing back into the leaf litter. Small moments like this are easy to miss unless you slow down and watch.

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TIL an interesting and disgusting fact! Which means you all get to learn it too. Eastern Cottontail rabbits have to go through an extensive digestive process to actually get all the calories from their food. So they eat the food, then poop out a greenish mucus-colored blob, and then eat the blob so that their bodies can go Round 2 on the food. Anything indigestible is pooped out as hard pellets (an entirely different kind of poop). Thanks, Cambridge Day! #TheMoreYouKnow #rabbits #EasternCottontail

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