Sentence examples for digest grass from inspiring English sources
(Their stomachs are meant to digest grass).
Because the stomachs of cattle are meant to digest grass, not grain, cattle raised industrially thrive only in the sense that they gain weight quickly.
Building an exoskeleton of a goat and a prosthetic stomach to digest grass before attempting to cross the Alps on all fours must rank as one of the weirder research projects funded by the Wellcome Trust.
Having built a goat exoskeleton, a goat stomach (to enable him to digest grass) and two prosthetic goat front legs, Thwaites lived in the Swiss Alps for three days with a lonely goatherd.
About seven times more corn than what we eat is used to feed livestock like cattle (which can digest grass more easily than corn).
Like cats, when dogs feel sick, they eat grass because their stomach cannot digest grass.
A sheep regurgitates its food and chews the cud, thus enabling its four separate stomach compartments to thoroughly digest the grasses and other herbage that it eats.
It is able to digest taller and coarser grass than most other ruminants, has a wide muzzle and a row of incisor teeth that enable it to take big bites, and can use the tongue to bundle grass before cropping it all bovine traits.
The largest stomach of the cow, the rumen, is a fermentation chamber in which bacteria digest the cellulose in grasses and feeds, converting them to fatty acids and amino acids, which are the fundamental nutrients used by the cow and the basis for the cow's production of milk.
Figure 1 shows the composition of the methanogenic biocenoses, as determined by mcr A/mrt A amplicon cloning and sequence analysis, of continuously stirred tank reactors (CSTRs) efficiently digesting maize or grass silage at equilibrated mesophilic or thermophilic conditions.
Capybaras are coprophagous, meaning they eat their own feces as a source of bacterial gut flora, to help digest the cellulose in the grass that forms their normal diet, and to extract the maximum protein and vitamins from their food.
