Advantages of a ruminant digestive system are: - Can digest cellulose - Upgrade low-quality feeds - Make protein from urea and other non-protein sources - Produce its own vitamin B by microbial action Advantages of a ruminant digestive system are: - Can digest cellulose - Upgrade low-quality feeds - Make protein from urea and other non-protein sources - Produce its own vitamin B by microbial action
the monogastric as it can digest all types of food
Actually ruminants cannot digest cellulose, they have symbiotic bacteria in a part of their stomach called a "rumen" digest the cellulose down to sugars and starches that the ruminants can actually digest in another part of their stomach later.
Digests protein much like monogastrics like cats dogs and humans are able to. The Abomasum is the "true stomach" of a ruminant.
Pepsin
Animals that chew their cud (aka, 'ruminate') are called ruminants. This is beneficial to these animals because they have bacteria in their stomachs that digest the various plant materials the ruminant eats. To help the bacteria digest the plants, the ruminant brings up a wad of plant material (called the cud) and chews it thoroughly to mechanically break down the tough structural fibers of the plant. The ruminant then reswallows the cud, the bacteria digest the plant and both the bacteria and the cow get their necessary nutrients from the plant.
So you have to digest so you can absorb nutrients and protein
Pepsin is the enzyme that will digest protein at pH 1.6. It is the primary enzyme in the stomach responsible for breaking down proteins into smaller peptides. Pepsin functions optimally in the acidic environment of the stomach.
Cooking affects protein by converting the amino acids into it. The result is a harder to digest protein.
The horse is not a ruminant animal. Horses are actually inefficient at digesting feeds high in fibre, mainly because it gets passed through much quicker and more often than you see with a true ruminant being a cow.
A ruminant's digestive tract has 4 sections to its stomach. Because the plant matter that most ruminants enjoy is hard to digest, ruminants have to regurgitate food to chew it again (e.i., "chewing the cud"). The four stomachs allow the hard-to-digest food to be digested many times.
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