Eli5: How are elephants able to consume enough calories when all they eat is leaves and vegetables and those have very few calories?

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Eli5: How are elephants able to consume enough calories when all they eat is leaves and vegetables and those have very few calories?

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Herbivores often have microorganisms in their digestive tract that gradually break down the otherwise indigestible cellulose in plants into usable sugars. It takes a lot of chewing and a long time in the herbivore’s gut, so a lot of them chew their food more than once and a lot of them have multiple stomachs

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