Foregut fermentation
Form of digestion
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Foregut fermentation is a form of digestion that occurs in the foregut of some animals such as the hamster rat, langur monkey, and the hippopotamus.[1] It has evolved independently in several groups of mammals, and also in the hoatzin, a bird species.
Foregut fermentation is employed by ruminants and pseudoruminants, some rodents and some marsupials.[2] It has also evolved in colobine monkeys and in sloths.[3]
