Owl Research Paper

Owls are talented predators with sharp claw and breaks that are useful for catching their prey. The owl can’t chew their preys just like other birds. When they eat small preys, they can swallow it whole; when they eat larger preys they tear it into smaller pieces and then they swallow those. Owls obtain their food by using their sensitive ears to listen for its prey and their magnificent eyes allows them to locate their prey. When they fly, it is completely silent because if the way their feathers are made. They eat fish, amphibians, invertebrates, reptiles, small animals and even other birds. When they eat, the unchewed food goes down their pharynx and esophagus into the first part of the their stomach which is the proventriculus; it makes acids, enzymes and mucus. The second part is the ventriculus that filters feathers and bones from the rest of the digestive system. The feathers and bones are compressed into a pellet and then the owl will regurgitate it later. The things that are able to be digested then go to the liver, pancreas, small intestine, large intestine, and the cecum helps the intestine absorb proteins, water and microbial decay of fiber. The food reaches a tubular organ that hold the waste in there until the owl wants to get rid of it. The vent is like our anus.
Their digestive system is similar to ours because they have pharynx, esophagus, liver, pancreas, small intestine, large intestine with similar functions, their cloaca is like our rectum and their vent is like our anus. They are different because they swallow their food whole, have two part to a stomachs and one part stores the pellet that they later regurgitate, and we don’t regurgitate food. They also have a cecum that helps absorb things in the intestine and we don’t have a cecum. Owls are similar and different in many