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Thread #112761   Message #2390512
Posted By: The Fooles Troupe
16-Jul-08 - 08:30 AM
Thread Name: BS: Tough Koala
Subject: RE: BS: Tough Koala
BTW, did know that roos don't fart?!!!

"Despite having a herbivorous diet similar to ruminants such as cattle which release large quantities of methane through exhaling and eructation, kangaroos release virtually none. The hydrogen byproduct of fermentation is instead converted into acetate, which is then used to provide further energy. Scientists are interested in the possibility of transferring the bacteria responsible from kangaroos to cattle, since the greenhouse gas effect of methane is 23 times greater than that of carbon dioxide."

Radio Australia - Innovations: "Methane In Agriculture." 15 August 2004.