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Birds chew with their stomach

Did you know that birds actually chew with their stomach?

Birds have a beak, which of course doesn’t contain any teeth or molars. Therefore, a bird swallows food whole. Birds have two stomachs for the digestion process. In the first stomach (the gizzard or muscular stomach), there are small stones (which they intentionally swallow) that help with chewing. The muscles of the gizzard and the stones work together to grind the food, so it can then be digested in the second stomach (the glandular stomach). This way, birds can still digest food without chewing it in their beak.

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