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THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM OF VERTEBRATES

MAMMALS: Raccoon


 Common raccoon digestive tract
Raccoon (Procyon lotor) digestive tract (Stevens & Hume 1995)


Concentrations of short chain fatty acids in the gastrointestinal tract of mammals
Figure 8.6. Concentrations of VFA (SCFA) along the gastrointestinal tracts of mammalian carnivores, omnivores, and herbivores. Animals were fed a at 12 hour intervals.  Each value represents the mean (+/- SE) of 12 samples, consisting of three samples collected at two, four, eight, and 12 hours after a meal, from the oral (S1) and aboral (S2) segments of the stomach, three equal-length segments of the small intestine (SI1, SI2, SI3), the cecum (Ce), and two or three equal-length segments of the colon (C1, C2, C3).  (Modified from Argenzio et al. 1974; Clemens et al. 1975a; Clemens and Stevens 1979; Clemens 1980.)  (CD Figure 9.6)