HUMAN NUTRITION

Detailed explanation-1: -The microbial digestion takes place in the intestine and cecum. Examples of pseudo ruminants include horses, hippopotamus, rabbits and guinea pigs. Animals like hippopotamus and camels have a three chambered stomach while zebras, horses and rhinoceros have a simple monogastric stomach.

Detailed explanation-2: -Some examples of pseudo ruminants are horses, camels, alpacas, hippopotamus, rabbits, guinea pigs, and hamsters. These animals have a digestive system comprised of a three-chambered stomach. They lack a rumen.

Detailed explanation-3: -Pseudoruminant is a classification of animals based on their digestive tract differing from the ruminants. Hippopotami and camels are ungulate mammals with a three-chambered stomach (ruminants have a four-chambered stomach) while equids (horses, asses, zebras) and rhinoceroses are monogastric herbivores.

Detailed explanation-4: -True ruminants, such as cattle, sheep, goats, deer, and antelope, have one stomach with four compartments: the rumen, reticulum, omasum, and abomasums.

Detailed explanation-5: -Pseudo-ruminants have a three-chamber stomach in the digestive system. However, their cecum-a pouched organ at the beginning of the large intestine containing many microorganisms that are necessary for the digestion of plant materials-is large and is the site where the roughage is fermented and digested.