Cilia pull the food through the mouth in a stream of mucus and through the oesophagus, where it is partially digested by enzymes from a pair of large faecal pellets.
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This search is facilitated by the strong scent produced by the weta s body and by its faecal pellets, and can involve the male travelling over 250 metres in a single night.
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It includes the microscopic remains of diatoms, dinoflagellates, dictyochales, coccolithophores, foraminiferans, phaeodareans, tintinnids, crustacean eggs and moults, protozoan faecal pellets, picoplankton and other planktonic matter embedded in a membranous gelatinous matrix.
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Stronger evidence that " Anomalocaris " ate trilobites comes from fossilised faecal pellets, which contain trilobite parts and are so large that the anomalocarids are the only known organism from that period large enough to have produced them.
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At least some " Atractomorpha " species also share a habit with various generally sedentary Orthoptera such as some Pamphagidae, of producing their excreta in the form of relatively few, large, elongated faecal pellets, one at a time.
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"Detritus can be broadly defined as any form of non-living organic matter, including different types of plant tissue ( e . g . leaf litter, dead wood, aquatic macrophytes, algae ), animal tissue ( carrion ), dead microbes, faeces ( manure, dung, faecal pellets, guano, frass ), as well as products secreted, excreted or exuded from organisms ( e . g . extra-cellular polymers, nectar, root exudates and leachates, dissolved organic matter, extra-cellular matrix, mucilage ).
