The Life of Mammals
Episode 03 - Plant Predators. This episode looks at herbivorous mammals. The sloth is a leaf-eater, but it has compensated for the lack of nutriment in its diet by doing less (its reactions are a quarter the speed of a human's). This doesn't apply to all herbivores, which rely on bacteria in their stomachs to digest the leaves' cellulose. Plants can be poisonous, but Brazilian tapirs - the largest inhabitant of the South American rainforest - deal with them by eating a little of each species and then supplementing it with kaolin. The pika collects and stores plants to survive through the winter. (from wikipedia.org)
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