Intake, ingesta retention, particle size distribution and digestibility in the hippopotamidae

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 139, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 449-459

  Clauss, M ^a   Schwarm, A ^b   Ortmann, S ^b   Alber, D ^c   Flach, E J ^d   Kuhne R ^e   Hummel, J ^a   Streich, W J ^b   Hofer, H ^b  

^a Institute of Animal Physiology   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c HAHN MEITNER INSTITUT   (Germany)

^d UK   (United Kingdom)

^e Zoological Garden of Berlin   (Germany)

Author keywords

Common hippopotamus; Digestion; Foregut fermentation; Forestomach; Herbivore; Macropod; Mean retention time; Pygmy hippopotamus

Indexed keywords

CERIUM; CHROMIUM; COBALT DERIVATIVE; COBALT EDETATE; LIGNIN; WATER;

ACID DETERGENT FIBER; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BOVIDS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGESTION; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; FORESTOMACH; INGESTION; KANGAROO; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; PLUG FLOW REACTOR;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPROTODON; HEXAPROTODON LIBERIENSIS; HIPPOPOTAMIDAE; HIPPOPOTAMUS AMPHIBIUS; MACROPODIDAE; UNGULATA;

EID: 10644267781     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpb.2004.10.002     Document Type: Article

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