1. difference between digestive tract of
herbivores vs carnivores
Herbivore means plant eater

2. Oral cavity
• Carnivorous animals tend to have wide mouths in
relation to their head size and have highly-
developed jaw muscles called the temporalis
muscle.
• Herbivores have smaller mouths and muscular
tongues to move food about and grind it down on
the flat platforms of molar teeth in the mouth

3. digestive tracts
• Herbivores have long digestive tracts because it takes a
long time to absorb nutritents from the plant material
which they eat. They also have a large caecum which
helps, along with enzymes, breakdown the plant
material and cellulose.
• Carnivores have shorter digestive tracts as they can
obtain nutrients from the meat they consume more
quickly. They have a realatively small caecum as their
diet only consists of small amounts of plant material.
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4. Teeth
• A carnivore's teeth are long, sharp and
pointed. These are tools that are useful for the
task of piercing into flesh.
• Herbivore's teeth are not pointed, but flat
edged. These are useful tools for
biting, crushing and grinding.

5. Saliva
• A carnivore’s saliva does not contain digestive
enzymes.
• Herbivore's saliva is alkaline, containing
carbohydrate digestive enzymes.

6. Stomach size
• Stomachs differ greatly between carnivores and
herbivores.
• Carnivores have greatly enlarged stomachs which
encompass between 60 and 70 percent of their
entire digestive tracts,
• while herbivores have much smaller stomachs as
they generally are required to process smaller
amounts of food.
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7. stomach
• A carnivore's stomach secretes powerful digestive
enzymes with about 10 times the amount of
hydrochloric acid than a human or herbivore. The pH is
less than or equal to "1" with food in the stomach, for
a carnivore.
• For humans or other herbivores, the pH ranges from 4
to 5 with food in the stomach. Hence, man must
prepare his meats with laborious cooking or frying
methods.
• E. Coli bacteria, salmonella, campylobacter, trichina
worms [parasites] or other pathogens would not
survive in the stomach of a lion

8. small intestine
• A carnivore's or omnivore's small intestine is three to
six times the length of its trunk.
• This is a tool designed for rapid elimination of food that
rots quickly.
• Man's, as well as other herbivore's small intestines are
10 to 12 times the length of their body, and winds itself
back and forth in random directions.
• This is a tool designed for keeping food in it for long
enough periods of time so that all the valuable
nutrients and minerals can be extracted from it before
it enters the large intestine.

9. liver
• In relative terms, a carnivore's liver is a tool
designed with the capacity to eliminate ten
times as much uric acid as the liver of man or
other plant eater.

10. reference
• http://www.waoy.org/26.html