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Ostrich do not have teeth. They shift the food to their http://www.answers.com/topic/crop (a holding pocket in her esophagus), pick up their head to about ankle height, and move on. The head pecks again, this time getting small bits of gravel. Now amongst brown grass, it finds seeds. Its head moves here and there pecking up the bounty like a strange long-legged, long-necked, precisely-pecking chicken. It raises its head to its full 8-foot (2.4 m) height, peers around for trouble, and swallows. The ball of seeds, half-devoured lizard, and gravel emerges from the crop and slides slowly down its neck - stretching the neck skin as it goes - finally into ist tough muscular stomach, called a gizzard. The bits of gravel and sand that it swallowed earlier act as teeth in the gizzard and grind the hard food into manageable bits for its intestines to digest. Its gizzard content may be 45% sand and stones. All birds have gizzards and "chew" their food this way. Its 45-foot (14-m) long intestine (twice the length of a human's) is long enough to absorb practically every scrap of nutrients in the food.
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Do ostriches have teeth?
No, ostrich do not have teeth. There is a photoshopped picture on the web that shows a closeup of an ostrich with a beakful of teeth, but it is not a real photo. The teeth appear to be those of a canine. So if it has a beak there no teeth.
How are wisdom teeth and an appendix of a human common to wings of an ostrich?
They have no obvious purpose.
How many bones does ostrich have?
An ostrich has 56 bones in its body.
Why does an ostriche eat stones?
It has no teeth so it needs the stones as gastroliths to grind the food up in the ostrich's gizard.
How many toes does an ostrich have on one foot?
An ostrich has 2 toes on one foot.
How many calories in one ostrich egg?
There are about 2,000 calories in one ostrich egg.
How many syllables are in the word ostrich?
No, ostrich is a two syllable word: os-trich.
How many babies does ostrich have?
Each ostrich usually lays a different amount of eggs. On average, an ostrich lay about 11 eggs that will hatch.
How many legs does ostrich have?
An ostrich has two legs and two wings because it is a bird.
How many babies does a ostrich have?
Each ostrich usually lays a different amount of eggs. On average, an ostrich lay about 11 eggs that will hatch.
How many yolks are in an ostrich egg?
One
One ostrich egg is equivalent to the weight of how many chichken eggs?
One ostrich egg is equivalent to the weight of how many chichken eggs?
