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THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM OF VERTEBRATES

MAMMALS: Dugong

Dugong (photo by Duane Yates)    < go to CD



Dugong (Dugong dugong) digestive tract (Stevens & Hume 1995)


Table 8.7a.  (CD Table 9.7a)

* Absorption from cecum (or ceca) alone.
Dashes indicate absence of information. Contributions of SCFA to maintenance energy were estimated from the rate of SCFA production by in vitro isotope dilution or measurements of digesta flow. Total maintenance energy was either calculated as twice the BMR or assumed to be equivalent to ad libitum digestible energy intake in captive, nonreproducing, and adult animals. (From Stevens and Hume 1995.)