Bird Digestion Flashcards
1
Q
What’s specific about bird digestion
A
Birds do not chew there food due to not having teeth
2
Q
What happens instead of chewing
A
They use their tongues to push food to the back of their mouths where it is swallowed
3
Q
What happens when the food swallowed
A
It’s moved down the oesophagus into the crop which is a temporary storage before passing it to the proventriculus
