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Answer 1:Horses can eat it because their teeth has something special. The front teeth makes it so that grass gets easy to tear. The back teeth (molars) tear it and chew more so it is possible to swallow. That is why. Answer 2:Actually, #2 is only half of the story. You see, we humans also have similar kind of teeth as a horse, except a horse has much more flatter molars than we do. A horse's secret "weapon" to eating grass is their cecum. They have a HUGE cecum that is designed to ferment and more thoroughly digest grass than what their stomach and small intestine could do. In this cecum, bacteria and digestive juices help provide a fermentation environment to further break down the fibrous material found in grass.

It is a less efficient process of digestion than true ruminants have like cows and sheep do with their four-chambered stomach, but it's enough to help a horse get adequate energy from and to help it keep up with its metabolic energy needs.

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