“Cecal valves slow down food passage and provide for fermenting chambers, allowing commensal microorganisms to convert cellulose to volatile fatty acids”…
Yemen chameleons have a caecum…so do they have a place to ferment food..thus break down cellulose?
“The caecum is the longest and forms a U-shaped loop that is held in place by a long mesentery. At the end of the distal part of the loop, the caecum passes into the short ileum”…
https://www.researchgate.net/public...of_the_Yemeni_chameleon_Chamaeleo_calyptratus
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0711998105
Could this happen in chameleons as well?Yemen chameleons have a caecum…so do they have a place to ferment food..thus break down cellulose?
“The caecum is the longest and forms a U-shaped loop that is held in place by a long mesentery. At the end of the distal part of the loop, the caecum passes into the short ileum”…
https://www.researchgate.net/public...of_the_Yemeni_chameleon_Chamaeleo_calyptratus
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