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The process of swallowing is called?
The process of swallowing is called deglutition. It involves voluntary and involuntary muscles working together to move food or liquid from the mouth to the stomach.
What process is uesed sqeeze food down the esophagus?
The process of swallowing.
How do snakes and crocodiles breathe when their mouth is full of food?
Can't answer for a crocodile - but snakes have a 'tube' that leads down to their lungs - when they're swallowing prey, the tube extends beyond the edge of the snakes mouth - and enables the reptile to breathe while swallowing.
Do snakes chew their food before swallowing?
no they swallow it whole and later it gets smaller in its stomach
Which stage can we stop the process of swallowing a bolus of food?
Only while it is still in the mouth.
What do you call the rounded mass of food prepared by the mouth fr swallowing?
its still called food.
What is the First step in the digestive process?
I would guess at chewing the food and mixing with saliva before swallowing
What push food down into the stomach?
The esophagus. Deeply lined muscle that almost contracts and pushes food down to the stomach
Do Florida king snakes eat when they are shedding?
Snakes usually go off their food during the shedding process - however - once the shed is complete they will readily accept food.
Why snakes are called friends of farmers?
because many snakes kill rats for food which damage the crop.
Why ruminants are called ruminants?
They are called ruminants because they have a four chambered stomach (Rumen, Abomasum, reticulum, omasum), food will enter the rumen and then the animal will then (during its resting period) regurgitate the food re chewing it and then swallowing it where it then enters the remaining three stomachs (this process is called chewing cud and is repeated until all food is digested).
How does snakes take its food more details?
Snakes swallow their food whole - Take as an example a corn snake swallowing a mouse... The snake finds the mouse's head, opens it's mouth and grabs the mouse's nose. It pushes forward, stretching its jaws as it goes, until the head of the mouse is in the snakes mouth. Once the mouse's head is in the snakes throat, it's muscles grip the mouse preventing it from sliding backwards, while the snake 'walks' its jaws forward over the mouse's body. This process is repeated until the whole mouse is in the snakes throat, then muscles contract and push the mouse down to the snakes stomach.
