LIFE SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -The digestion process prepares food for absorption and use by the animal’s body. The main differences between ruminants and mo-nogastrics are monogastrics only have one compart-ment to their stomach, whereas ruminants have four compartments: rumen, reticulum, omasum, and abo-masum.

Detailed explanation-2: -Herbivores with monogastric digestion can digest cellulose in their diets by way of symbiotic gut bacteria. However, their ability to extract energy from cellulose digestion is less efficient than in ruminants. Herbivores digest cellulose by microbial fermentation.

Detailed explanation-3: -Getting back to nutrition and gastrointestinal anatomy, keep in mind that pigs are not ruminants. Because they lack a rumen and fiber-digesting microbes, pigs are unable to digest fiber well. They cannot survive on plants alone!