Freshwater crocodile the same weight. This allows them to live for a half a year without eating. After the food goes down the throat, it is met in the gizzard by sand and rocks -these elements help break apart the bones, horns, hooves, hide, and flesh. This more broken-down material then enters the hydrochloric acid of the stomach. The hearts of other reptiles are designed to contain three sections including two atriums and ventricle. The right atrium, which collects the returned de-oxygenated blood and the left atrium which collects the oxygenated blood collected from pulmonary arteries of the lung, takes the blood
Cat anatomy acid and other digestive enzymes to break down food. Food moves from the stomach into the small intestine. The first part of the small intestine is the duodenum. As food moves through the duodenum, it mixes with bile, a fluid that neutralizes stomach acid and emulsifies fat. The pancreas releases enzymes that aid in digestion so that nutrients can be broken down and pass through the intestinal mucosa into the blood and travel to the rest of the body. The pancreas doesn't produce starch processing enzymes because cats don't eat a diet high in carbohydrates. Since the cat digests low