ruminant herbivore adaptations

• give examples of ruminants


  cows goats and sheep
• what is meant by ruminants


  these are animals that mainly eat grass and forage
• describe a ruminants stomach


  it is 4 chambered
• why are ruminants herbivores unable to digest grass and forage


  they do not produce the enzyme cellulase
• what resides in the ruminants gut that allows them to eat grass and forage and why


  mutalistic bacteria that secrete cellulase enzymes
• where in the stomach is mutalistic bacteria located


  in the rumen
• describe how cellulose moves through ruminants


  the bacterial enzymes break the bonds between the glucose molecules and is then broken down int he rumen bacteria , the broken down glucose is then absorbed across the rumen membrane to provide the animals with energy