Fourageergedrag en vergelijkende darmmorfologie

3 important questions on Fourageergedrag en vergelijkende darmmorfologie

What two types of foraging models are most used?

Diet selection models or prey models and patch models.

What is the other name for milk teeth?

deciduous! All exept molars.

What are the four basic trophic categories that mammals are devided into and what do their intestinal tract and teeth look like?

Insectivorous mammals - short intestinal tract, no cecum!, teeth with pointed cusps to puncture the exoskeleton.

Herbivores - browsers and grazers (ungulates), and gnawers. Canines are absent or small, molars are broad and high crowned. Rodents have sharp incisors. Cecum is large and intestine long. Ruminents have four-chamered stomaches (rumen forms cud that can be chewed over - reticulum - omasum where water, soluble food  and microbial products are absorbed - abomasum and small intestine).

Carnivores - digestive tract short and cecum small or absent.

Omnivores - ...

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