In order to consume gums and other indirect sources of nutrients, these animals must have a digestive system to compensate. Gums of trees are beta-linked polysaccharides that are not easily digested. hese require a form of microbial fermentation to acquire the essential nutrients. This process takes the marmoset roughly 17.5 hours (+ or – 1.6 hours) to completely digest, while carnivores take a mere 3–4 hours to digest proteins from meat. Though the digestive process takes some time, the gummivorous mammals have relatively low daily caloric needs, as they do not expend as much energy to acquire their food. Gums contain galactose in form of galacturonic acid this sugar is part of lactose which is milk sugar, so consumption of gums in early mamalls or their precursors might be a cause for development of mammary gland in mammals along with maternal instincts to feed their offspring and increased body lipids in females of early mammals.
In order to consume gums and other indirect sources of nutrients, these animals must have a digestive system to compensate. Gums of trees are beta-linked polysaccharides that are not easily digested. These require a form of microbial fermentation to acquire the essential nutrients. This process takes the marmoset roughly 17.5 hours (+ or – 1.6 hours) to completely digest, while carnivores take a mere 3–4 hours to digest proteins from meat. Though the digestive process takes some time, the gummivorous mammals have relatively low daily caloric needs, as they do not expend as much energy to acquire their food. Gums contain galactose in form of galacturonic acid this sugar is part of lactose which is milk sugar, so consumption of gums in early mammals or their precursors might be a cause for development of mammary glands in mammals along with maternal instincts to feed their offspring and increased body lipids in females of early mammals.
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