Retention of fluid and particles in captive tapirs (Tapirus sp.)

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 157, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 95-101

  Clauss, Marcus ^a   Lang Deuerling, Stefanie ^b   Müller, Dennis W H ^a   Kienzle, Ellen ^b   Steuer, Patrick ^c   Hummel, Jürgen ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Digestion; Digestive physiology; Passage; Tapirus indicus; Tapirus terrestris

Indexed keywords

EDETIC ACID;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFECATION HABIT; DIET; DIGESTION; DIGESTIVE FUNCTION; ELEPHANT; FLUID INTAKE; FOOD; FOOD INTAKE; HERBIVORE; HORSE; LIQUID; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; RHINOCEROS; SPECIES COMPARISON; TAPIRUS INDICUS; TAPIRUS TERRESTRIS;

ANIMALIA; CERATOTHERIUM SIMUM; ELEPHANTIDAE; EQUIDAE; RHINOCEROTIDAE; TAPIRIDAE; TAPIRUS INDICUS; TAPIRUS SP.; TAPIRUS TERRESTRIS;

EID: 77954032846     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2010.03.029     Document Type: Article

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