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Cellulose Digestion in Ruffed Grouse, Chukar Partridge, and Bobwhite Quail
Publication Type: | Journal Article |
Year of Publication: | 1973 |
Authors: | Inman, DL |
Journal: | The Journal of Wildlife Management |
Volume: | 37 |
Issue: | 1 |
Date Published: | 1973 |
ISBN Number: | 0022541X |
Keywords: | Alectoris, Alectoris chukar, Bonasa, Bonasa umbellus, Colinus, Colinus virginianus, Coturnix, Coturnix coturnix, Odontophoridae, Perdix, Perdix perdix, Phasianidae, Philomachus, Philomachus pugnax, Scolopacidae |
Abstract: | Two formulated diets with 15.4 and 9.6 percent alpha-cellulose were fed to chukar partridge (Alectoris chukar), ruffed grouse (Bonasa umbellus), and bobwhite quail (Colinus virginianus). The digestive parameters measured were the total dry matter metabolizability and the movement and digestion of cellulose and non-cellulose foods in the cecal and noncecal gut portions. The increase in cellulose in the higher cellulose diet seemed to inhibit the digestion of other foods for all three species. The total percentage of cellulose digested by grouse and chukars was the same on both diets but bobwhites digested a significantly (P < 0.05) higher percentage of cellulose in the higher cellulose diet. The relative sizes of the ceca among the species had little relation to the total percentage of cellulose digested. The 90 percent efficiency of cellulose digestion in the ceca of grouse and chukars, however, was greater than the 65 percent for bobwhites. |
URL: | http://www.jstor.org/stable/3799750 |
Short Title: | The Journal of Wildlife Management |
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