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Can non ruminant mammals survive without bacteria inhabiting the intestine?
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∙ 12y ago
Yes. If you put mice into sterile conditions as soon as they are born they survive quite nicely. Like Bubble boy if you've seen the movie.
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Is a termite a ruminant animal?
No ruminants are all mammals, a termite is an insect. However both ruminants and termites use symbiotic bacteria to help them digest cellulose in their food.
What is a Ruminant mammal beginning with d?
Deer, dik-dik antelope, and duiker antelope are ruminant mammals that begin with the letter d.
Is a koala a non-ruminant?
Yes, non-ruminant means "having one stomach," if the koala wasn't ruminant, he would have four stomachs.
How do you spell jiraph?
The name for the tall, ruminant mammals (Giraffa camelopardalis) is spelled giraffe.
How are cows deers and a sheep alike?
They're all hooved ruminant mammals that are herbivores.
Is an ostrich ruminant or nonruminant?
No, an ostrich is an omnivorous bird. Ruminants are mammals of the order Artiodactyla, and includes animals like cattle, sheep, deer, giraffes. An ostrich is not a ruminant.
What group of vertebrates do giraffes belong to?
Giraffes are ruminant, even-number toed, hoofed, placental mammals.
How does bacteria benefit some mammals?
Digestion - and its all mammals.
Where is bacteria found in your bodies?
In your intestines, on your skin, in your mouth, etc
Describe the process of digestion in ruminant and non ruminant animals?
The difference in the process of digestion varies for ruminant animals vs. non ruminant. This is how they differ: Runminant animals are generally any hoofed and horned mammals like cows, goats, deer---their digestion takes in a four compartment stomach and chewing a cud consisting of regurgitated food to often alter the make of the hays and grains they eat. The non ruminant animal has a mechanical, chemical, and biologically--the reduction of food by chewing and adding digestive enzymes, then there is the mixing and heating of it with hydrochloric acid and enzymes in the stomach, then nutrients are extracted from the large intestine, followed by the excretion of waste. (This is our digestive process so we must be non ruminant).
What are the parts of the digestive system for hoofed mammals?
Hoofed mammals with simple stomachs have amouth, tongue,an esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine cecum and rectum. Ruminants have a 4 chambered stomach. The Omasum, Abomasum, Rumen and Reticulum as well as the components of mammals with simple stomachs.
What is the digestion system of placental mammals?
The digestive systems of placental mammals varies depending their diets, however, the primary digestive tracts are those with a simple stomach (mono gastric) and those with complex stomachs(ruminant).
