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Poop, or excrement, is the leftovers of food digestion that were not absorbed by the intestines of the animal who ate the food. The animal may have excreted it, but there are still nutrients in the excrement. As excrement decomposes due to the presence of bacteria, it gets smelly and flies can detect this odor from great distances away. They come to lay their eggs on it so that the hatching larvae will have a source of food as soon as they emerge from the eggs, since fly parents don't stick around to feed their babies.

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