• Hindgut fermentation is a digestive process seen in monogastric herbivores (animals with a simple, single-chambered stomach). Cellulose is digested with...
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    twenty-five to twenty-nine days old. Metenteron in the milliped Illacme plenipes. Hindgut fermentation digest-035—Embryo Images at University of North Carolina...
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    as opposed to other atlantogenates that rely on the more typical hindgut fermentation, though this is not entirely certain. Ruminants represent the most...
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  • cellulose by microbial fermentation. Monogastric herbivores which can digest cellulose nearly as well as ruminants are called hindgut fermenters, while ruminants...
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  • colobine monkeys and in sloths. Ruminant foregut fermentation Hindgut fermentation Enteric fermentation Munn, Adam J.; Snelling, Edward P.; Taggart, David...
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    gastrointestinal tract and undergo bacterial fermentation in the cecum and large intestine. In this hindgut fermentation, the material from the cecum is expelled...
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    are a foregut fermenters (as opposed to the pigs' hindgut fermentation) This foregut fermentation, similar to but separately evolved from a ruminant...
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    levels of cellulose in their plant based diet, manatees utilize hindgut fermentation to help with the digestion process. Manatees have been known to eat...
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    breathe mostly with the trunk but also with the mouth. They have a hindgut fermentation system, and their large and small intestines together reach 35 m...
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    nutrition. They commonly browse when grasses are not plentiful. Their hindgut fermentation digestive system allows them to subsist on diets of lower nutritional...
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    a major component of grass, through the process of hindgut fermentation. Cellulose fermentation by symbiotic bacteria and other microbes occurs in the...
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  • primates can derive significant amounts of phytanic acid from the hindgut fermentation of plant materials. Global DARE Foundation (Patient Advocacy Group...
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    ribcage, the digestion of unchewed food may have been facilitated by hindgut fermentation like in modern herbivorous lizards, which have several chambers in...
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    tooth-like lamellae and their diet was plants which they digested through hindgut fermentation. These birds were likely driven to extinction when the islands were...
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    bark. They have a long small intestine and large caecum, employing hindgut fermentation to break down the tough materials in their food. They have also been...
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    the moist ones are typically eaten by the animal (coprophagy or hindgut fermentation). These moist pellets contain large amounts of nutrients that were...
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    swallowed plant matter without further oral processing, and relied on hindgut fermentation for food processing. The teeth were somewhat spoon-shaped and chisel-like...
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    contrast, lower diversity howler monkeys in the New World rely on hindgut fermentation – occurring lower in the colon or cecum – much like horses and elephants...
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    living in dry environments such as Tarchia may have relied more on hindgut fermentation for digestion or, alternatively, consumed succulent plants that did...
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  • non-human primates can derive significant amounts of phytol from the hindgut fermentation of plant materials. Phytol and/or its metabolites have been reported...
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    PMID 1430423. S2CID 34775788. Barboza, P.S.; Hume, I.D. (September 1992). "Hindgut fermentation in the wombats: two marsupial grazers". Journal of Comparative Physiology...
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  • orangutans), can derive significant amounts of phytanic acid from the hindgut fermentation of plant materials. Freshwater sponges contain terpenoid acids such...
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  • propionic acid fermentation, butyric acid fermentation, solvent fermentation, mixed acid fermentation, butanediol fermentation, Stickland fermentation, acetogenesis...
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    plant, as well as its fruits. They also exhibit both foregut and hindgut fermentation, with rhinos, hippos, and elephants displaying the former and giraffes...
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  • pseudoruminants may use foregut fermentation to break down cellulose in fibrous plant species (while most others are hindgut fermenters with a large cecum)...
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    dry environments such as Minotaurasaurus may have relied more on hindgut fermentation for digestion or, alternatively, consumed succulent plants that did...
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    enzymes for macromolecule breakdown, and the second is a bulbous hindgut used for fermentation. High bacterial diversity between individuals of M. melolontha...
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    the species also is unique in possessing a digestive system capable of fermentation and the effective breaking-down of plant matter, a trait more commonly...
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  • information also relates to all animals that eat cecotropes. These animals are hindgut fermenters. This means fibrous food material is fermented after the small...
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    gallbladder). The tract may also be divided into foregut, midgut, and hindgut, reflecting the embryological origin of each segment. The whole human GI...
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