Regurgitation and remastication in the foregut-fermenting proboscis monkey ( Nasalis larvatus )
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Regurgitation and remastication in the foregut-fermenting proboscis monkey (Nasalis larvatus).
Although foregut fermentation is often equated with rumination in the literature, functional ruminants (ruminants, camelids) differ fundamentally from non-ruminant foregut fermenters (e.g. macropods, hippos, peccaries). They combine foregut fermentation with a sorting mechanism that allows them to remasticate large particles and clear their foregut quickly of digested particles; thus, they do n...
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عنوان ژورنال: Biology Letters
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1744-9561,1744-957X
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2011.0197