Digestive System of Vertebrates: Mammals: Whale

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THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM OF VERTEBRATES

MAMMALS: Whale

Atlantic right whale (photo by Jennifer Campbell) < go to CD

Sperm whale digestive tract

Sperm whale (Physeter catodon) digestive tract (Stevens & Hume 1995)

Table 8.2 (CD Table 9.2)
Microbial counts in the foregut of herbivorous mammals and birds

Microbial counts in the foregut of herbivorous mammals and birds

Table 8.5. Short-chain fatty acids in the foregut of herbivorous birds and mammals. (CD Table 9.5)
Short chain fatty acids in the foregut of birds and mammals

Short chain fatty acids in the foregut of birds and mammals

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, adult animals. (From Stevens and Hume 1995)