During one point in your mission you find a freshly dead car

During one point in your mission, you find a freshly dead carcass of some animal on Wallace. The animal is relatively large, (3m long, 2m tall, 450 kg in mass). You notice that inside what is probably the mouth are 40 hard sharp structures in two rows on the top and the same on the bottom of the mouth. Eight of these structures are longer than the others. After completing a necropsy you find that the digestive system is fairly long and appears to be made-up of 7 different major structures that food passes through. Two of these structures are larger than the rest and are sack-like. The other 5 structures are tube like. After removing the digestive structures intact, you find that the entire digestive structure is approximately 35m in length. Given what you know about animals on earth, is this animal an herbivore, carnivore omnivore or detritivore? Explain.

As my understanding it is both herbivore and omnivore. Can u explain.

Solution

The digestive structure belong to herbivore animal.

Herbivores will have long digestive tracts as they need more time to absorb all the nutrients from the plant material what they have consumed. But when it comes to carnivore, they need shorter digestive system as it is easy to get nutrients from meat what they have consumed.

Omnivores eat plant matter along with meat and their digestive system very similar to carnivores but also have a working caecum.

Because of this, omnivores can consume a wide diet and as they are not only relying on plant material for their nutrient supply, their short digestive tract will try to absorb things form the meat what they consume. This is the reason why the process of digestion is extremely similar to carnivores and here they cannot absorb the digested plant matter as efficiently as herbivores.