Ruminants

Try this - http://animsci.agrenv.mcgill.ca/courses/450/extra/feed_to_milk/rumen.html

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in my test prep book (which is a very reliable book) it says ruminants stomach has alkaline pH, I checked wikipedia and it says "Under normal fermentation conditions the environment in the reticulorumen is weakly alkaline and is populated by microbes ...

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Those ruminants can't digest wood - just the less dense cellulose of fiber. And they use symbionts to do it. There are almost no animals that digest cellulose with only their own enzymes. It may represent one of the oldest symbioses ...

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Hi all! Of all mammals only ruminants can digest wood. Even they use help of simbiotic bacteria/prostists to prepair dinner for them. Wood is almost everywhere, storing endless amount of energy. Why don't most animals utilize this energy? ...

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... more or less static because of low metabolism. This apoptotic pathway (e.g protozoa to protein ) can partially be related to protein take up in ruminants except that the involved set micro organisms are quorum sensing and are not apoptotic but dormant. During formation fibers show nerve cell ...

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