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			Burchell's Zebra are browsers that forage primarily on fibrous foods. They prefer grasses and sedges, but will also eat fruit, buds, leaves, roots, and bark. They utilize a hindgut fermentation system where plant cell walls are rapidly, but incompletely processed. This is adequate as long as they are able to eat large amounts of food. Forage quality won't affect the digestion process. This allows them to exist in more marginal habitats where they are able to eat lower quality foods than the ruminants. The only problem is that they have to graze 60% of their day to make up for the lesser quality.
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