… or do they just make up for it with sheer unrelieved quantity of greenery, perhaps?

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      I’m having trouble finding a comparable number for other animals, though. Apparently for a lot of trace elements (like copper or selenium) ruminants are actually much worse at absorption, because the microbes essentially put them into a less available form.