Factors affecting the volume and macrostructure of gastrointestinal compartments in the tammar wallaby (Macropus eugenii Desmarest)

We explored the factors that govern the length, wet tissue weight and wet digesta content of the gut components of 100 tammar wallabies ( Macropus eugenii Desmarest) shot on the same night, by multivariate (discriminant) analysis and by allometric analyses based on simple linear regression, and on reduced major axis regression. The slope coefficient of the regression describing variation of whole gut content with body weight was not …