Harvesting, rumination, digestion, and passage of fruit and leaf diets by a small ruminant, the blue duiker

Oecologia

Volumn 123, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 466-474

  Wenninger, Paul S ^a   Shipley, Lisa A ^b  

^a FROSTBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blue duiker; Digestibility; Intake; Mean retention time; Rumination

Indexed keywords

CELL WALL; CELLULOSE; DIGESTION; FERMENTATION; FOOD PASSAGE; NEUTRAL DETERGENT FIBER; NITROGEN; RUMINATION; SALIX LASIANDRA;

BODY SIZE; DIGESTION; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD QUALITY; NUTRITIVE VALUE; UNGULATE;

CEPHALOPHUS MONTICOLA; FICUS CARICA; MEDICAGO SATIVA;

EID: 0033934676     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420000338     Document Type: Article

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