Terminology
Breaking feed into simple substances
What is digestion?
Animals with a single stomach
What are monogastrics (non-ruminants)?
Where digestion begins
What is the mouth?
Largest stomach compartment
What is the rumen?
Takes in food whole (no teeth)
What is the beak?
Movement of nutrients into the bloodstream
What is absorption?
Animals with four stomach compartments
What are ruminants?
Moves food from mouth to stomach
What is the esophagus?
Has a honeycomb lining
What is the recticulum?
Stores and softens food
What is the crop?
Small mass of swallowed food
What is a bolus?
Type of animal that digests roughage in the cecum
What are hindgut fermenters?
What is the stomach?
Grinds feed and removes liquid
What is the omasum?
What is the proventriculus?
Chewing cud in ruminants
What is rumination?
What are avian species?
Where most nutrients are absorbed
What is the small intestine?
The "true stomach"
What is the abomasum?
Crushes food using grit and gravel
What is the gizzard?
Wave-like muscle contractions that move food
What is peristalsis?
Absorbs water and forms feces
What is the large intestine?
Microbes in this organ break down roughage
What is the rumen?
Where digestive and reproductive tracts combine
What is the cloaca