Subsequent studies on rats have shown that they are less able to digest vegetable fats ( whether they contain erucic acid or not ) than humans and pigs.

Its function is to control the expulsion of feces, unwanted semi-solid matter produced during digestion, which, depending on the type of animal, may be one or more of: matter which the animal cannot digest, such as bones ; food material after all the nutrients have been extracted, for example cellulose or lignin ; ingested matter which would be toxic if it remained in the digestive tract ; and dead or excess gut bacteria and other endosymbionts.

Capybaras are coprophagous, meaning they eat their own feces as a source of bacterial gut flora, to help digest the cellulose in the grass that forms their normal diet, and to extract the maximum protein and vitamins from their food.

It used gizzard stones to help digest its food, which is thought to have included fruits, and its main habitat is believed to have been the woods in the drier coastal areas of Mauritius.

This benefited the anaerobic cell because it enabled it to digest food aerobically.

# to enhance production or food quality traits ( faster growing fish, pigs that digest food more efficiently );

Lysosomes digest excess or worn-out organelles, food particles, and engulf viruses or bacteria.

It is the primary source of nutrition for young mammals before they are able to digest other types of food.

Rabbits reingest their own droppings ( rather than chewing the cud as do cows and many other herbivores ) to digest their food further and extract sufficient nutrients.

They gorge themselves when prey is abundant, until their crop bulges, and sit, sleepy or half torpid, to digest their food.

Depending on the quantity and contents of the meal, the stomach will digest the food into chyme anywhere between forty minutes and a few hours.

Although harvestmen can digest solid food, the guts of most modern chelicerates are too narrow for this, and they generally liquidize their food by grinding it with their chelicerae and pedipalps and flooding it with digestive enzymes.

Humans also engage in mutualisms with other species, including their gut flora ( without which they would not be able to digest food efficiently ).

Acid proteases secreted into the stomach ( such as pepsin ) and serine proteases present in duodenum ( trypsin and chymotrypsin ) enable us to digest the protein in food ; proteases present in blood serum ( thrombin, plasmin, Hageman factor, etc.

The problem, Aretaeus believed, was a lack of heat in the stomach necessary to digest the food and a reduced ability to distribute the digestive products throughout the body, this incomplete digestion resulting in the diarrhoea.

It occurs when pancreatic enzymes ( especially trypsin ) that digest food are activated in the pancreas instead of the small intestine.

Porridge is one of the easiest ways to digest grains or legumes, and is used traditionally in many cultures as a food to nurse the sick back to health.

Although the larvae are able to feed themselves, both parents also feed the larvae: they digest the flesh and regurgitate liquid food for the larvae to feed on, a form of progressive provisioning.

The sloth's stomach was able to digest coarse and fibrous food.

The digestive tract is a simple tube with two pairs of salivary glands to help digest the food.

Sage Grouse do not have a muscular crop and are not able to digest hard seeds like other grouse.

They have a relatively long, spiral-shaped gut to enable them to digest this diet.

In recent years, a few brewers have produced gluten-free beer made with sorghum with no barley malt for people that cannot digest gluten-containing grains like wheat, barley, and rye.

Carnivora have a simple stomach designed to digest primarily meat, as compared to the elaborate digestive systems of herbivorous animals, which are necessary to break down tough, complex plant fibers.

Termites and protists have a symbiotic relationship that allows the termites to digest the cellulose in their diet via the protists.

A cell must have captured a photosynthetic cyanobacterium and failed to digest it.

It's only necessary that they remain unique, a requirement that is necessary to ensure that, even if a bunch of different messages are joined together as part of a bigger multi-part message ( as happens when a message is forwarded as an attachment, or assembled into a MIME-format digest ), you won't have two parts from different messages with the same content ID, which would be likely to confuse mail programs greatly.

For example, a multipart MIME message using the digest subtype would have its Content-Type set as " multipart / digest ".

Like horses, they have a simple stomach, but a large cecum, in which they can digest tough plant matter.

People of Japanese descent have been shown to be able to digest the polysaccharide of the seaweed, after gut microbes developed the enzyme from marine bacteria.

While the original proofs of Hadamard and de la Vallée-Poussin are long and elaborate, and later proofs have introduced various simplifications through the use of Tauberian theorems but remained difficult to digest, a surprisingly short proof was discovered in 1980 by American mathematician Donald J. Newman.

Humans and other animals have amylases, so they can digest starches.

A large percentage of herbivores have mutualistic gut fauna that help them digest plant matter, which is more difficult to digest than animal prey.

In computer science, a collision or clash is a situation that occurs when two distinct pieces of data have the same hash value, checksum, fingerprint, or cryptographic digest.

Larger stomachs and longer intestines have evolved because plant material is more difficult to digest than meat.

Shoots are often eaten by animals because the fibres in the new growth have not yet completed secondary cell wall development, this makes shoots softer and easier to chew and digest.

" Lactose malabsorption " refers to the physiological concomitant of lactase deficiency ( i. e., the body does not have sufficient lactase capacity to digest the amount of lactose ingested ).

Although there are still no methodologies to reinstate lactase production, some individuals have reported that their intolerance varies over time, depending on health status and pregnancy About 44 % of lactose intolerant women regain the ability to digest lactose during pregnancy.

Tryptic digest is a necessary step in protein absorption because proteins are generally too big to be absorbed through the lining of the small intestine.

Phnau is somewhat heavy to digest ; it's quite possible to go through the whole day without feeling in the least bit hungry, after having a big phanu meal in the morning.

Young elephants, pandas, koalas, and hippos eat the feces of their mothers or other animals in the herd to obtain the bacteria required to properly digest vegetation found on the savanna and in the jungle.

There is a custom among some Ashkenazic Jews not to eat them during Passover, except for the elderly, infirm, or children, who cannot digest plain matzah ; these matzot are considered to be kosher for Passover if prepared otherwise properly.

Whilst the onychophoran waits for the prey to digest, it salivates on its slime and begins to eat it ( and anything attached to it ).

On November 14, 1997 at a concert in Belgrade, another Peter Mlakar speech received a decidedly mixed audience reaction ( in sharp contrast to the 1989 speech ), in which he asked the audience to " eat the pig and digest it once and for all ", referring to the then president Slobodan Milošević.

Juvenile iguanas often eat feces from adults in order to acquire the essential microflora to digest their low-quality and hard to process vegetarian only diet.

In a plant such as the Venus Flytrap that can make its own food through photosynthesis, it does not eat and digest its prey for the traditional objectives of harvesting energy and carbon, but mines prey primarily for essential nutrients ( nitrogen and phosphorus in particular ) that are in short supply in its boggy, acidic habitat.

Young elephants, pandas, koalas, and hippos eat the faeces of their mother, probably to obtain the bacteria required to properly digest vegetation.

In the wild, they eat and digest desert grasses, so cannot efficiently process fatty or high protein foods, or too many green plants.

The mice apparently can digest the xylose and they eat large quantities of the pollen ..

In general, the Piciformes are insectivorous, although the barbets and toucans mostly eat fruit and the honeyguides are unique among birds in being able to digest beeswax ( although insects make up the bulk of their diet ).

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It is also common to eat cháo during an illness, as it is believed the porridge is easy to digest while being fortifying.

It is one of the few species that do not eat ripe fruits ; it has a sacculated stomach with four chambers specific for breaking down plant materials, however it cannot digest the sugars contained in mature fruits.

Its success is due in part to its adaptability and opportunism ; it is both an efficient hunter and a scavenger, with the capacity to eat and digest skin, bone and other animal waste.

Some sacoglossans simply digest the sap which they suck from the algae, but in some other species the slugs sequester and utilize within their own tissues, living chloroplasts from the algae they eat, a very unusual phenomenon known as kleptoplasty.

Milk is the primary source of nutrition for newborns before they are able to eat and digest other foods ; older infants and toddlers may continue to be breastfed, either exclusively or in combination with other foods.

Bats cannot digest the seeds and pips of the fruit that they eat and so the seeds leave the bat's digestive system " wrapped " in fertilizer.

Salivary glands digest the food chemically, though only carbohydrates in the grasses and such they eat.

The mature seed cones are ovoid, berry-like, 6-10 mm long, glossy black, and contain a single seed ; the seeds are dispersed by birds which eat the cones, digest the fleshy cone pulp, and excrete the seeds in their droppings.

Because they live in the desert they heat up a lot quicker and they stay warmer for longer, meaning they can eat more because they digest food quicker in warmer conditions.

One study actually found that black-and-white colobus monkeys ( Colobus guereza ) eat younger leaves over older leaves ( this is thought to happen because the leaves have more protein and are easier to digest ) ( Chapman et al.