Animal Digestion System

|Animal Structure & Function |  |

|The digestive system | What is the rumen? | The ruminant digestive system | Ruminant | |

|ecophysiology  | Mycotoxins and rumen function |Monogastric digestion | Hindgut fermenters | Adaptations | |

|to high-fibre diets | Human digestive system| References | |

|The digestive system | |

|The digestive system is one of the body's major organ systems. All animals - with the exception of some | |

|endoparasites such as tapeworms - have a digestive system. In this section we're going to look at | |

|digestion in ruminants, and compare their guts with those of other, non-ruminant, mammals. | |

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