Eli5: How is it that Cows can consume the same fibrous grass that makes every other herbivores scat into tight balls, somehow manage to produce turds of such low density as to be called “cow patties”? ?

Question

Eli5: How is it that Cows can consume the same fibrous grass that makes every other herbivores scat into tight balls, somehow manage to produce turds of such low density as to be called “cow patties”? ?

In: Biology

Answer 1

Fun Fact: in Iowa we have Cow Pie Bingo. We have a bunch of numbers spray painted to the ground and put a cow in a fence surrounding the numbers and where ever he poops, if you have that number, you win.