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The reason for long alimentary canal in herbivores is that they have 3 pseudo parts of stomach before their actual or true stomach starts, namely:-

(1.)reticulum

(2.)remen

(3.)omasum

(4.)abomasum or the true stomach.

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Q: Why is the length of the alimentary canal of a herbivore much longer than that of a carnivore?
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