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jdogginla
09-29-2005, 01:35 PM
How is it that pigeons are able to eat and digest pebbles? What the ****?
Sleek-Jet
09-29-2005, 01:37 PM
If I remember my biology correctly, birds use the small pebbles to help break up food in their stomachs. :)
jdogginla
09-29-2005, 01:39 PM
I'm too lazy to look it up, if I don't get a logical answer then I'll look it up.
HOOTER SLED-
09-29-2005, 01:45 PM
Comes out like corn for us.:D Roughage. Look out for those bird turds, those would hurt the noggin'.
h2oski2fast
09-29-2005, 01:49 PM
Ghetto Chicken! Mmmmmmmmmm!
Sleek-Jet
09-29-2005, 01:55 PM
I'm too lazy to look it up, if I don't get a logical answer then I'll look it up.
I guess no one believes me anymore... :(
The gizzard is a highly muscular structure lined with a tough, abrasive keratin-like layer of koilin, known as the cutica gastrica. It shows great variation, and is most elaborate in granivorous and herbivorous birds. The sandpaper-like grinding action may be assisted by grit and stones deliberately ingested . This action is enormously powerful and can even deal with metal particles.
:D