Use of fibrous diets by small herbivores: How far can the rules be 'bent'?
Trends Ecol Evol
; 7(5): 159-62, 1992 May.
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Allometric considerations suggest that small mammals should be unable to eat highly fibrous diets. A combination of the selective and more rapid passage of fibrous material through the gut, together with changes in gut capacity when energy requirements increase, may allow small mammals to escape these allometric constraints. Recent evidence that birds can absorb essential amino acids from the caecum (which has hitherto been considered insignificant in mammals) suggests that birds and mammals have evolved very different ways to be a herbivore.
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Trends Ecol Evol
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1992
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Australia
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Reino Unido