Nutrition

4. This diet contains ingredients consist of standardised ingredients processed to form major nutrient groups
7. Is a very common nutritional disease in domestic pets and other housed animals
10. Diet consists mainly of meat
12. Usually associated with excess Vitamin A in the diet
13. Generally omnivorous and will be opportunistic feeders in the wild
14. Herbivores possessing multiple digestive tract compartments for feed breakdown before feed reaches the “true” stomach
15. A parasite found in warm blooded animals

1. Food intake is determined by gut-fill and not by total energy intake as with other animals
2. Some species specifically re-eat some faeces to improve digestion – rabbits, rodents
3. Primates and guinea pigs can not manufacture this vitamin
5. Maintenance food intake: 3 – 5 g/day (15% of bwt/day)
6. The chemical processes that occur within a living organism in order to maintain life
8. Provide energy and can be converted into fat
9. Basal metabolic rate
11. Physical reduction of feed
14. Coprophagy provides microbial protein – prevents essential amino acid deficiencies