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What is an adaptation that enables many hoofed mammals to break down the cellulose of plant cell walls into nutrients that they can use and absorb?
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I'm pretty sure they usually have more than 1 stomach (ex: cows have 4), and their teeth are made for grinding up plants.Cellulose is broken down in two ways, mostly:
Mechanically, animals will keep grinding it with their teeth or in their stomachs with small swallowed stones until it's broken down and the cell contents spill out. Cows for instance will keep regurtitating their food so that they can chew it for a long time.
With enzymes, more specifically cellulase, which mammals don't produce. Grazers live with bacteria in their gut which do, and these break down the molecular structure of cellulose.
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