Weird animal digestion tricks

Weird Digestion tricks

As humans  we know how we digest food but do you know how hen, rabbit and cat help there body in digestion given below are weird but true facts about some digestion tricks of few animals let's explore it.


Hen

  Grit is mixture of small pebbles or crushed stones that hens eat in order to help them digest their food. Hens also eat small stones and  littlebit of soil which helps in digestion.


 As hens don't have teeth they eat this grit for digestion. As they don't have teeth and are not able to chew their food to aid digestion.  Instead, they pass the food into an organ called the gizzard where it is ground up.  

Rabbit

Rabbits are herbivores, eating mostly grass, carrots and weeds. But this diet isn’t the easiest to digest, and by the time their intake  has make it through their intestines it still contains many of the nutrients the bunnies need.

Rabbits and hares have this special kind of digestion called hindgut fermentation. In short, they eat their own poop and digest it a second time. Bunnies actually make two different kinds of droppings: little black round ones and softer black ones known as cecotropes that are eaten. This process is known as coprophagy, ...

Cow

Cow has four stomachs and undergoes a special digestive process to break down the tough food it eats. Cow eats hay, silage and grass. The cow first eats, it chews the food just enough to swallow it. ... The cud then goes to the third and fourth stomachs, the omasum and abomasum, where it is fully digested.