MICROBIAL processes are directly concerned in the digestive assimilation by Herbivora of the starch and crude fibre components of their diet. In ruminants the rumen and in non-ruminants the cæcum is ...
Humans, pigs and dogs have a non-ruminant digestive system in which enzymes break down carbohydrates, proteins and fats in the foregut with very little fiber digestion in the hindgut. As most of us ...