Sentences with phrase «indigestible animal materials»

In the wild, cats would take in very little plant fiber — instead, they would consume a lot of indigestible animal materials, such as fur, bones, and cartilage, which would serve the same purpose.

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Termites have achieved ecological dominance and now some of the ingredients for their success have been determined to lie in their unique gut microbiome «factories» — which enable the creatures to eat wood, soil and other material generally not considered as food sources by other animals but rather as indigestible.

It comprises a diverse mixture of bacteria, protists and fungi which can break down and extract essential nutrients from materials that are indigestible to most animals, such as lignocellulose in wood.