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=== Digestion === [[File:Alaskan Hare Skeleton.jpg|thumb|Skeleton of [[Alaskan hare]] ([[Museum of Osteology]])]] {{Main|Cecotrope}} Easily digestible food is processed in the gastrointestinal tract and expelled as regular feces. But in order to get nutrients out of hard to digest fiber, lagomorphs ferment fiber in the cecum (in the GI tract) and then expel the contents as [[cecotrope]]s, which are reingested ([[cecotrope|cecotrophy]]). The cecotropes are then absorbed in the small intestine to utilize the nutrients.<ref name="dummies 1">{{cite web |url=http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/exploring-a-rabbits-unique-digestive-system.html |title=Exploring a Rabbit's Unique Digestive System |work=Rabbits for Dummies |access-date=2013-08-14}}</ref> Like rodents, they are not able to vomit.<ref>{{cite journal | pmc=3622671 | date=2013 | last1=Horn | first1=C. C. | last2=Kimball | first2=B. A. | last3=Wang | first3=H. | last4=Kaus | first4=J. | last5=Dienel | first5=S. | last6=Nagy | first6=A. | last7=Gathright | first7=G. R. | last8=Yates | first8=B. J. | last9=Andrews | first9=P. L. | title=Why Can't Rodents Vomit? A Comparative Behavioral, Anatomical, and Physiological Study | journal=PLOS ONE | volume=8 | issue=4 | pages=e60537 | doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0060537 | doi-access=free | pmid=23593236 | bibcode=2013PLoSO...860537H }}</ref>
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