Excretion patterns of solute and different-sized particle passage markers in foregut-fermenting proboscis monkey (Nasalis larvatus) do not indicate an adaptation for rumination

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Matsuda, Ikki
Sha, John C M
Ortmann, Sylvia
Schwarm, Angela
Grandl, Florian
Caton, Judith
Jens, Warner
Kreuzer, Michael
Marlena, Diana
Hagen, Katharina B

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Behavioral observations and small fecal particles compared to other primates indicate that free-ranging proboscis monkeys (Nasalis larvatus) have a strategy of facultative merycism (rumination). In functional ruminants (ruminant and camelids), rumination

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Physiology and Behavior

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2037-12-31