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Digestive Physiology and Feeding Behaviour of Equids – A Comparative Approach
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Equids are a family of the Perissodactyla, and thus close relatives to tapirs and rhinoceroses. From a diverse record of fossil equids covering more than 40 genera, a large range of body masses and feeding habits (MacFadden 1992), only seven species of the genus Equus survive today that appear (with the exception of coat coloration) as a morphologically relatively homogenous group, covering a much smaller range of body sizes (between 200-500 kg; only the domestic horse breed spectrum appears to approach the body size range covered in fossil times), and sharing basically the grazing feeding niche (Schulz and Kaiser 2012). Although by no means unsuccessful in terms of standing biomass – considering for example African zebra herds – equids appear much less successful than bovids in terms of species diversity [...]
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Clinic of Zoo Animals, Exotic Pets and Wildlife, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstr. 260, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland E-mail: [email protected]
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