Digestive physiology of captive capybara (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris)

Authors: Ali Kiani, Marcus Clauss, Sylvia Ortmann, Catharina Vendl, Elizabeth R. Congdon, Emilio A. Herrera, Michael Kreuzer, Angela Schwarm

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: colonic separation mechanism, hindgut fermenters, methane, passage kinetics

2019

Digestive physiology of the plains viscacha (Lagostomus maximus): A large herbivorous hystricomorph rodent

Authors: Katharina B. Hagen, Dorothea Besselmann, Ulrike Cyrus-Eulenberger, Catharina Vendl, Sylvia Ortmann, Robert Zingg, Ellen Kienzle, Michael Kreuzer, Jean-Michel Hatt, Marcus Clauss

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: colonic separation mechanism, coprophagy, herbivory, nutrition, obesity

2015

A case of non-scaling in mammalian physiology? Body size, digestive capacity, food intake, and ingesta passage in mammalian herbivores☆

Authors: Marcus Clauss, Angela Schwarm, Sylvia Ortmann, W. Jürgen Streich, Jürgen Hummel

Publication/Journal: Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology

Keywords: body size, browser, coprophagy, digestive anatomy, digestive physiology, foregut fermenter, grazer, herbivory, hindgut fermenter, ingesta retention, ruminant

2007

Nutrition of captive lowland anoa (Bubalus depressicornis): a study on ingesta passage, intake, digestibility, and a diet survey

Authors: Kaori Flores-Miyamoto, Marcus Clauss, Sylvia Ortmann, Anthony W. Sainsbury

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: intermediate feeder, mean retention time, ruminant nutrition

2005