Excretion patterns of fluid and different sized particle passage markers in banteng (Bos javanicus) and pygmy hippopotamus (Hexaprotodon liberiensis): Two functionally different foregut fermenters

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 150, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 32-39

  Schwarm, Angela ^a,b   Ortmann, Sylvia ^a   Wolf, Christian ^c   Jurgen Streich W ^a   Clauss, Marcus ^d  

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

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c HAHN MEITNER INSTITUT   (Germany)

^d VETSUISSE FACULTY UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cattle; Foregut fermentation; Forestomach; Herbivore; Mean retention time; Pygmy hippopotamus

Indexed keywords

CERIUM; CHROMIUM; COBALT; EDETIC ACID;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; EXCRETION; FERMENTATION; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; LONG TERM MEMORY; NONHUMAN;

BOS; BOS JAVANICUS; HEXAPROTODON; HEXAPROTODON LIBERIENSIS; HIPPOPOTAMIDAE;

EID: 42749093754     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2008.02.022     Document Type: Article

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