Elephants have poor digestion so there are lots of nuts and things in their feces, so some tribes in rough times will go through the feces and eat the nuts.

This poor digestion of nuts and beans has created what I have read are the finest coffee beans on earth where elephants are fed a bunch of coffee beans on a mostly empty stomach, then crap out the beans. A cup of this coffee can go for over a hundred dollars.

Interesting. I've seen many shows discuss it. In terms of elephants, Second Harvest is the act of eating dung from other elephants, to catch what the last didn't process.

Nutritionally poor though. All they have is fat stores, but aren't getting the proteins, vitamins, minerals, and essential components of the diet. You could drink Coke every day and still end up with scurvy while being fat as a cow.

The only reason the modern poor person looks fat is high fructose corn syrup. Because it is so cheap, it's in all of the processed foods. If you go to a food bank or utilize SNAP benefits to shop at convenience stores like many people do, all you end up buying is high fructose corn syrup. Tastes good, makes you fat, but it's nutritionally void. There's a reason we call it junk food.