Biology

Digestion in Ruminants and Rodents

Digestion in Ruminants and Rodents

Major objective of this lecture is to present on Digestion in Ruminants and Rodents. Here briefly describe on Digestive System of Ruminants: Feed on plant – cellulose; Need cellulase to digest it; But ruminants do not produce cellulase. However their digestive system are specially adapted to carry out cellulose digestion. Here also focus on Ruminants. Ruminants has a stomach with 4 chambers: rumen, reticulum, omasum and abomasum. Finally describe on Abomasum of Ruminants and Rodents.