Roughage eater

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Grazing European bison bull

As grazing livestock (including roughage eaters) are macrophage grazers called.

In wildlife biology , a distinction among ruminants between Selektierern with easily digestible plant food and Raufutterfressern with indigestible plant food, as well as in transition, the intermediary types with seasonal strongly varying food. You stand out u. a. through hypsodontal teeth . Forage eaters predominantly ingest monocot plants , especially those of the sweet grass family , selectively, as cattle also non-selectively, and digest their plant cell walls ( plant fibers / cellulose ) fermentatively , especially in the rumen .

Examples of roughage eaters are cattle, sheep (also wild sheep or mouflons ) or bison .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reinhold R. Hofmann: Wild animals in pictures for comparative anatomy . Schlütersche, Hannover 2006, ISBN 978-3-7944-0214-4 , p. 73 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ↑ Cetartiodactyla . In: Wilfried Westheide, Gunde Rieger (Ed.): Special Zoology . Part 2, vertebrates or skulls. Springer Spectrum, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-642-55435-3 , p. 643 ( limited preview in Google Book search).