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THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM OF VERTEBRATES

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De Lahunta, A., and Habel, R. E. 1986. Intestines. In  Applied Veterinary Anatomy, pp. 246-256. Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders Co.

Dellow, D. W. 1982. Studies on the nutrition of macropodine marsupials. III. The flow of digesta through the stomach and intestine of macropodines and sheep. Aust. J. Zool. 30: 751-765.

Dellow, D. W., and Hume, I. D. 1982.  Studies on the nutrition of macropodine marsupials. IV.  Digestion in the stomach and the intestine of Macropus giganteus, Thylogale thetis and Macropus eugenii. Aust. J. Zool. 30: 767-777.

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