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And they took millions of years to evolve and depend on microbes living in their gut to digest the wood. They have to keep those microbes in a protected environ
by Tagbert 3y ago
And they took millions of years to evolve and depend on microbes living in their gut to digest the wood. They have to keep those microbes in a protected environment to allow them do do the digestion. They aren’t just digesting wood out in the open.
- Kerb_ 3y agoI can follow these goalposts. They're already in gut microbiomes. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29763555/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29763555/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32374590/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32374590/