The relationship of food intake and ingesta passage predicts feeding ecology in two different megaherbivore groups

By M. Clauss, W. Streich, A. Schwarm, S. Ortmann, J. Hummel. 2007

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Resource partitioning along multiple niche dimensions in differently sized African savanna grazers (2011, background): “In contrast, elephants Loxodonta africana are hardly constrained by the relationship between quantity eaten and MRT and are observed to feed for long periods of time (75% of day) and to eat high bulk low quality diets (Clauss et al. 2007b).”
The Morphophysiological Adaptations of Browsing and Grazing Mammals (2008, background): “Anatomical data compilations suggest that E.maximus has a longer gastrointestinal tract, a larger masseteric insertion area and smaller parotid glands than L.africana (Clauss et al. 2007b) – seemingly in parallel to similar differences between GR and BR ruminants.”
The hippopotamus conveyor belt: vectors of carbon and nutrients from terrestrial grasslands to aquatic systems in sub-Saharan Africa (2015, methodology): “…metabolic rate are available, we based our consumption estimates on an equation that incorporates metabolic theory (by scaling intake to 3/4 of body mass) and has support both in field estimates (Field, 1970; Arman & Field, 1973; Clauss et al., 2004) and comparative theory (Clauss et al., 2007).”