Fluid and particle retention times in the black rhinoceros Diceros bicornis, a large hindgut-fermenting browser

Acta Theriologica

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 367-376

  Clauss, Marcus ^a,b   Froeschle, Tanja ^a   Castell, Johanna ^a   Hatt, Jean Michel ^b   Ortmann, Sylvia ^c   Streich, W Jürgen ^c   Hummel, Jürgen ^a,d,e  

^a Institute of Animal Physiology Physiological Chemistry and Animal Nutrition   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

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

^d Zoological Garden of Cologne   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Browser; Grazer; Mean retention time; Passage rate; Rhinoceros

Indexed keywords

GRAZING;

ANIMALIA; DICEROS BICORNIS; EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS; RHINOCEROS;

EID: 26944482731     PISSN: 00017051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03192632     Document Type: Article

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