Sentences with phrase «digest plant materials»

A dog's body is optimized to digest animal products, but it does have a limited ability to digest plant materials of certain kinds.

Scientists have discovered how earthworms can digest plant material, such as fallen leaves, that would defeat most other herbivores.

They can't digest plant material well, and they require essential nutrients that only meat can provide to them.

The bacteria in the wallaby's gut digests plant material without producing as much methane as the gut bacteria of other mammals Read More

Not exact matches

Earthworms, however, are able to digest fallen leaves and other plant material, thanks to the ability of drilodefensins to counteract polyphenols.

The bears digest bamboo, thanks to unique gut microbes that break down the tough plant material.

The reason is that pesticides kill good bacteria in the soil and prevent that bacteria from digesting inorganic materials in the soil and delivering those nutrients to the plant.

Here's how it works: Grass plants convert solar energy (and atmospheric carbon dioxide) into plant biomass, and the cow synthesizes that plant material into her own energy via the cellulose - digesting microbes in her rumen.

A cow's stomach is not designed to digest grain, only grass and leafy plant materials.

The stomachs contained partially digested grasses, so our pets have always been nourished by plant materials.

Whether or not this is the case for your cat, all cats can benefit from a protein - rich, low - carbohydrate diet because cats are obligate carnivores and have an extremely limited ability to digest and process plant materials.

In the wild, the only plant material cats eat comes from the stomach contents of their prey and it has already been partially digested.

They round up animals, and eat the stomach contents that have the plant material partially digested, then the meat.

The carnivore's pancreas does not secrete cellulase to split the cellulose into glucose molecules, nor have dogs become efficient at digesting and assimilating and utilizing plant material as a source of high quality protein.

Some processes have been developed to turn the easier - to - digest bits of plant stalks, cellulose and hemicellulose, into alcohols or break them into molecules that can be reacted into better fuels or raw materials.

More ground foliage, more animals live to eat the plant material which emits Co2 / Methane when digested and more when the animals die.

Plant material is used in a variety of ways to create energy: combusted to produce heat or electricity; anaerobically digested to produce methane; and converted to ethanol, biodiesel, or hydrogenated vegetable oil for fuel.