Assertion: ruminant | /r/CapableOf | obtain nutrition
Facets:
value: from the food
type: OTHER
value: as a similarly-sized ruminant
type: MANNER
value: from hay
type: LOCATION
value: from grasses
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: While foregut fermentation is generally considered more efficient, and monogastric animals cannot digest cellulose as efficiently as ruminants, hindgut fermentation allows animals to consume small amounts of low-quality forage all day long and thus survive in conditions where ruminants might not be able to obtain nutrition adequate for their needs.
text: A ruminant is an animal with a stomach that has multiple compartments, allowing it to extract nutrition from grasses, hay, and other cellulose-rich foods which other animals usually find indigestible.
text: Because the contact time the fermented food has with the absorptive surfaces of the intestines is limited, non-ruminants are not able to extract as many nutrients from the food.
text: So they are not able to extract as much of the nutrition from a diet of leafy plant material as a similarly-sized ruminant.