part of the digestive system used for mechanically breaking down food and mixing it with saliva
What is the mouth?
100
Reticulum, Rumen, Omasum, Abomasum
What are the 4 compartments of the ruminant stomach?
100
birds peck at the ground because they do not have this
What is teeth?
100
ruminants (cattle) spend 1/3 of their day doing this.
What is rumination/chewing their cud?
100
to chew food
What is masticate?
200
muscular movement in the esophagus which moves food to the stomach
What are peristaltic waves?
200
also called the paunch, and holds ingested feed until it is ruminated.
What is the rumen?
200
this part stores small amounts of food
What is the crop?
200
because a horse will choose grass over alfalfa and alfalfa over oat hay, it makes them this type of eater
What is a selective eater?
200
found in saliva, helps coat food so its easy to swallow
What is mucin?
300
2 part answer, must be answered in the correct order: chyme enters this part and nutrients are absorbed, then it is passed to this second part and water is absorbed
What is the small intestines and the large intestines
300
the true stomach
What is the abomasum?
300
also called the glandular stomach, this is where enzymes are first introduced to the food
What is the proventriculus?
300
the eating habits of wild pigs
What is foraging and digging?
300
keeps the pH in the rumen stable, found in the saliva of ruminants
What is a buffer?
400
non digested, non absorbed material is called this
What is feces?
400
when the animal regurgitates it's food to chew it so it can be fully digested. Cows do this up to 8 hours per day
What is rumination?
400
contains small gravel to aid in crushing and mixing feed
What is the gizzard?
400
eating rapidly and not being picky is common behavior with this type of ruminant
What is grass and roughage eaters?
400
found in the rumen of a polygastric which helps ferments hay,
What is strepococci?
500
the presence of bacteria in this part of the horses digestive system allow it to break down roughages
What is the cecum?
500
omasum also called many plies stomach and does not digest the food but does this.
What stomach removes the excess water?
500
both solid and liquid wastes pass through this
What is the vent?
500
pecking and nutritional deficiencies can lead to this in chickens