Digestive System of Vertebrates: Mammals: Vervet monkey

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THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM OF VERTEBRATES

MAMMALS: Vervet monkey

Vervet monkey (Ceropithecus pygerythrus) digestive tract (Stevens & Hume 1995)

Table 7.8. (CD Table 8.11)
TRansmission of passive immunity

0, no absorption or transfer; + to +++, degrees of absorption or transfer. (from Brambell 1970)

Table 8.4. (CD Table 9.4)
Microbial counts in the hindgut of vertebrates

Microbial counts in the hindgut of vertebrates

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)