Question

what is the structure of stomach in ruminants

Answer 1

Stomach of ruminants is called compound stomach. They have four Chambers rumen reticulum, omasum, abomasum. First the animal swallow the food into rumen then after some time it bring back the food to mouth, starts ruminating and swallow into reliculum then omasum then abomasum. It does because cellulose is hard to digest.

Answer 2

Answer:

The stomach of ruminants comprises of four parts :-

Rumen

Reticulum

Omasum

Abomasum

Ruminants quickly swallow the plant matter or grass.The saliva mixed half chewed food is transferred to rumen.Rumen is the largest chamber in the stomach.Here, the food gets partially digested by the bacteria present in the rumen and saliva.The partially digested food in the rumen is called cud.

The cud is then transferred to reticulum where the cud remains for sometime.When the ruminant relax then the food from the reticulum comes back to the mouth in small lumps for thorough chewing.

Completely chewed food is then directly transferred into the omasum where water from the food is absorbed.It then moves into the abomasum.

Abomasum is the true stomach of ruminants.From here, the food moves to the small intestine where digestion and absorption of food takes place.

The undigested food is then passes to the large intestine.The large intestine absorbs water from the food , and the remaining solid waste is egested from the body through anus.

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