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  • Title: Feeding characteristics of Mongolian gerbils (Meriones unguiculatus).
    Author: Otken CC, Scott CE.
    Journal: Lab Anim Sci; 1984 Apr; 34(2):181-4. PubMed ID: 6539405.
    Abstract:
    Prolonged direct observation, and a series of timed dissections indicated that gerbils were not coprophagous when provided with an adequate stock diet ad libitum. However, coprophagy occurred after the feeding of a variety of purified amino acid rations. The diets apparently lack some needed nutriment . Gerbils ate food approximately eight times per day. Meal feeding, either for a 1-hour or a 2-hour daily interval, resulted in weight losses, which were often, but not always, reversed by adaptation to the feeding procedure. When given no other nutriment , weanling gerbils ate raw ground beef, but lost weight and died. Substandard growth was observed when sorghum, corn, oats, wheat, sunflower seed, or peanuts were fed. A mixed vegetable diet also gave substandard growth.
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