The gizzard, also referred to as the ventriculus, gastric mill, and gigerium, is an organ in the digestive tract found in birds, reptiles, earthworms, some fish, and other creatures. This specialized stomach constructed of thick, muscular walls is used for grinding up food. In certain insects and molluscs, the gizzard features chitinous plates or teeth.
Dinosaurs, birds, pterosaurs, earthworms, crocodiles and alligators all have gizzards. Some crustaceans, fish, and gastropods also have gizzards. A gizzard is an organ found in the digestive tract of some animals.
A gizzard is a part of a bird, not a type of bird. According to Merriam Webster, it's "the muscular enlargement of the alimentary canal of birds that has usually thick muscular walls and a tough horny lining for grinding the food and when the crop is present follows it and the proventriculus. "
Goats can eat almost anything! So yes, they can eat grits.
No , gizzard is present in birds and crocodiles .
Humans don't have a gizzard.
No, because the gizzard is only in birds.
No, it's a type of bird.
A gizzard is a muscular organ inside a bird that grinds up food.
The mouth with teeth help to grind food into smaller pieces. This has a similar function to a bird's gizzard.
they contain regions of the digestive tract specializedfor particular functions. An earthworm gut has a region for storing soil, a region for grinding soil (gizzard), and another region for absorbing nutrients.
There is some controversy on this; some scientist believe that Neanderthals were a sub-species of humans, and some believe that they were a separate species and not humans at all.
humans either have straight thumbs or bent thumbs
A gizzard is a sack like organ at the back of the earthworms throat. The gizzard basically chews the earthworm's food since the worm doesn't have any teeth. The crop is a thinner organ closer to the head. The crop stores food.
The gizzard.
The function of an earthworm's gizzard is that the gizzard grinds organic matter.
All birds have a gizzard.
The gizzard is a digestive organ that helps breakdown food in the earthworm. similar to the turkeys gizzard. The turkey also has a gizzard that serves the same purpose.
The gizzard of the worm has a harder exterior because it is more muscular.
Why do you care it is a Gizzard :) haha
A bird's digetive system is different because a bird has a gizzard unlike a human, in the gizzard are rocks and pebble to help make the food smaller ,because the bird may not be able to chew it's food up completely.
inside a worms gizzard is the guts and a piece of its heart. him<3333
The gizzard is like teeth in an animal because the gizzard grinds down the soil into bits.
The gizzard must be tough, for the gizzard's main function is to grind and digest tough food.
Yes the gizzard diggests the food / crushes it