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Monogastric

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Facts
Monogastric organisms have a simple
digestive system, meaning there is
only one stomach compartment.

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Animals
Humans
Hogs
Cats
Dogs
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Nutrition
Monogastric animals are
carnivores or omnivores.

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What is true about the monogastric digestive system?
a. Monogastric animals can be herbivores.
b. Humans have a monogastric digestive system.
c. There are four stomach compartments.

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Ruminant
Facts
Animals
Food
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Rumination is the act of regurgitating
partially digested food from the Rumen to
continue digestion in the mouth.

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Animals
Cattle
Goats
Sheep
Deer
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Nutrition
Ruminants are able to be herbivores
from the microbial bacteria that
grows in the rumen which breaks
down fibers.

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Quiz
What is true about the ruminant digestive system?
a. Deer are ruminants.
b. Ruminants can eat meat if they want.
c. Ruminants have four stomachs

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Avian
Facts
Animals
Food
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Avian digestive systems have two extra organs.
The crop is where food is stored and soaked.
The gizzard contains grit or small rocks to grind food in
place of teeth.

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Animals
Chickens
Geese
Ducks
Other Fowl

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Nutrition
Some animals with the avian digestive
system are carnivores (Eagles, Hawks,
ect) but most are omnivores.

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What is true about the avian digestive system?
a. Only chickens are avians.
b. Avian digestive system includes the Bald Eagle.
c. Avians have three extra digestive organs.

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Pseudo-ruminant
Facts
Animals
Food

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Pseudo-Ruminants have a greatly
enlarged cecum.

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Animals
Horses
Rabbits
Hamsters
Guinea Pigs
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Nutrition
Due to the enlarged cecum, pseudo-ruminants are
similar to ruminants, without the four chambered
stomach, in the sense that they eat nearly entirely
roughages.

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What is true about the pseudo-ruminant digestive system?
a. Same as a ruminant.
b. Horses and cows are pseudo-ruminants.
c. Pseudo-ruminants eat a lot of roughages, like hay.

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Quiz #1
Which animal is a ruminant?
a. Horse
b. Dog
c. Deer

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Quiz #2
What would you not feed a horse?
a. Hay
b. Steak
c. Grain pellets

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Quiz #3
If an animal chews its cud what digestive system does it have?

a. Pseudo-ruminant
b. Ruminant
c. Avian

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Quiz #4
Your chicken is having a hard time digesting the new food you got
for it. What do you do?
a. Give the chicken small rocks to eat.
b. Crush the food before feeding.
c. Nothing, it will adapt.

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Quiz #5
Which one of these digestive systems can digest meat?
a. Ruminant
b. Pseudo-ruminant
c. Monogastric

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