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Fermentative digestion of food in the colobus monkey, Colobus, polykomos.
(1976-04)
Fermentation of leafy food occurs in the enlarged saccus gastricus of the colobus monkey with the formation of volatile fatty acid, as in the rumen of ruminant animals. About half of the digestible organic matter and ...
Oxygen-binding properties of hemoglobins from estivating and active African lungfish.
(1991-01)
he oxygen-binding characteristics and the multiplicity of the stripped hemoglobiin from active lungfish Protopterus amphibius, are the same as in specimens that have been estivating for about 30 months, showing that ...
Nasal heat exchange in the giraffe and other large mammals.
(North Holland Publishing, 1979-08)
The respiratory air of the giraffe is exhaled at temperatures substantially below body core temperature. As a consequence, the water content of the exhaled air is reduced to levels below that in pulmonary air, resulting ...
The mechanism of intracardiac shunting in the lizard Varanus exanthematicus.
(1983-07)
Intracardiac shunting was studied in unanaesthetized and unrestrained specimens of Varanus exanthematicus by simultaneous injection of radioactively labelled microspheres (15 micron) into the right and left atria. Lung ...
Comparative gastrointestinal morphology of the Kori bustard and secretary bird
(University of Nairobi, 2005-05)
Two secretary birds and three Kori bustards were studied to determine differences between their body size and gastrointestinal morphology. Body measurements were made on captive, live birds and gastrointestinal measurements ...
Evaporative water loss in two small African antelopes: the dik-dik and the suni
(1976)
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1. In controlled laboratory experiments pulmocutaneous water loss, respiratory rate, rectal and skin temperatures of the dik-dik (Rhynchotragus Kirkii) and the suni (Nesotragus moschatus) were measured before and ...
Respiration and metabolism in the giraffe.
(1982-11)
Measurements have been made on respiration of three resting unstressed adult giraffe under normal conditions. Tracheal dimensions and body dimensions have also been measured in a large number of giraffe and other mammals. ...
Digestive physiology of East African wild ruminants.
(1983)
The physiology of digestion of wild ruminants in their natural habitat was determined. The study consisted of fifty-one adult male animals representing sixteen species. While diet and body weight were both related to the ...
Design of the mammalian respiratory system. V. Scaling morphometric pulmonary diffusing capacity to body mass: wild and domestic mammals.
(1981-04)
This paper utilizes a comparative approach to establish the relationship between morphometric diffusing capacity for oxygen (DLo2) and maximal oxygen consumption (Vo2max). DLo2 and Vo2max were determined on the same 21 ...
The fine structure of the intestinal epithelium of Tilapia grahami.
(1975)
The ultrastructure of the intestinal epithelium is described in Tilapia grahami. The intestine is divisible into cranial, middle and caudal portions. The cranial intestine is involved in water anp ion transport as well as ...