Digestibility of Plants in Ruminal Fluids of Barren-Ground Caribou

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Thomas, Donald C., Kroeger, Peter
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1981
• Subjects: Animal food; Animal physiology; Biological sampling; Birches; Caribou; Equisetum; Intestines; Leaves; Lichens; Liverworts; Mosses; Sedges; Stems; Willows; Winter ecology; Fort Smith region; N.W.T; Arctic; Canada; Fort Smith; Northwest Territories; caribou; Rangifer tarandus
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65588

The comparative digestibilities of plants and their rates of digestion in vitro were assessed by fermentation with ruminal fluids obtained from barren-ground caribou (Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus) shot on their winter range in the southern Northwest Territories. There was a near-linear increase i...