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.
my question is although the digestive system refers it to the herbivore but the mouth structure is sharp. Can it be carnivore?
the two sacs indicated could be liver n stomach in omnivores?
Solution
Answer:
Carnivores have sharp, strong teeth made for tearing into meat. They spend little time chewing their food, because their saliva lacks digestive enzymes to help them break down the food. The animal sends it directly down to the esophagus where the digestive process begins. The food enters the stomach where it is digested and the nutrients extracted.
Carnivores are monogastric that is they have only one stomach (unlike a ruminant\'s stomach which has four chambers).
The structures referred to in the text resembles the digestive system of carnivores with the two larger structures being stomach and liver.
