Both parrots and goats have different digestive systems because goats are mammals and parrots are birds, meaning that they eat different foods.
Parrots have two stomachs. The food that gets swallowed, travels down the esophagus. Parrots eat more than they can digest, and the food waits in the crop until it can be digested later. Their proventriculus releases an acid that breaks food into pieces. The gizzard powderizes food. Then, the nutrients get absorbed in the small intestine. Then, the food goes to the large intestine to reabsorb water. The rectum lets undigested food to pass through the vent.
Goats have a different digestive system. Their digestive system is made up of seven parts. Food travels from the mouth into the esophagus, and from the esophagus into the rumen. Bacteria in the rumen provides enzymes to break down fiber in the food. Then, the food goes to the reticulum. Things that have been accidentally swallowed locate in the honeycomb construction of the reticulum’s walls. The ferment goes to the omasum for the water to be removed, and the nutrients to be absorbed. In the abomasum, the particles get digested by the acid in the stomach. The particles go to the small intestine for the nutrients to be absorbed. Then, the particles go to the large intestine.
Both parrots, and goats have digestive systems, but each one has a different digestive system. Parrots have many parts that goats don’t have, but they both have esophagus, small intestine, and large intestine.
