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Cetaceans like dolphins have several stomach chambers, starting with a muscular "forestomach" that acts like a crop to crush and masticate food. This is of limited size, and so despite their impressive size and gape most such creatures can only manage comparatively small prey.
Occasionally a cetacean manages to push a food item past the forestomach into the much larger main stomach, which is very uncomfortable the first time they try it. If they do manage it, the next logical step is to stuff the gullet full of food as well, resulting in the occasional Stregaverse dolphin swimming around with another dolphin's tail hanging out of its mouth. Huge prey like this is digested bit by bit as room is made in the main stomach.
Like competitive eating among humans this process is very wasteful, the stomach and intestines simply cannot process and absorb this many calories all at once. Many of the calories are lost and simply passed unabsorbed.
The fact that this whole process takes a lot of getting used to and is wasteful is of little comfort to the prey, who at least are usually swallowed headfirst and are spared being slowly digested from the feet/tail on up. 83
Occasionally a cetacean manages to push a food item past the forestomach into the much larger main stomach, which is very uncomfortable the first time they try it. If they do manage it, the next logical step is to stuff the gullet full of food as well, resulting in the occasional Stregaverse dolphin swimming around with another dolphin's tail hanging out of its mouth. Huge prey like this is digested bit by bit as room is made in the main stomach.
Like competitive eating among humans this process is very wasteful, the stomach and intestines simply cannot process and absorb this many calories all at once. Many of the calories are lost and simply passed unabsorbed.
The fact that this whole process takes a lot of getting used to and is wasteful is of little comfort to the prey, who at least are usually swallowed headfirst and are spared being slowly digested from the feet/tail on up. 83
Category Artwork (Traditional) / Vore
Species Dolphin
Size 1600 x 1213px
File Size 1 MB
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I wonder how similar the forestomach is to what birds have.
The crop doesn't digest or even masticate food; it stores it and moves it down. In birds, the forestomach is called the proventriculus.. Food passes through it but it never stays; it's sole purpose is as a chemical factory, and it doesn't limit the size of birds' prey at all. The gizzard, or ventriculus, is the true stomach, and some birds' gizzards, pound for pound, have the mashing power of a car compactor. The carnivores tend to have a gizzard that looks a lot like an ordinary stomach.
Because I have a bad habit of putting my money where my requests are, I've got a nice little surprise brewing for you.
. . I wonder how similar the forestomach is to what birds have.
The crop doesn't digest or even masticate food; it stores it and moves it down. In birds, the forestomach is called the proventriculus.. Food passes through it but it never stays; it's sole purpose is as a chemical factory, and it doesn't limit the size of birds' prey at all. The gizzard, or ventriculus, is the true stomach, and some birds' gizzards, pound for pound, have the mashing power of a car compactor. The carnivores tend to have a gizzard that looks a lot like an ordinary stomach.
Because I have a bad habit of putting my money where my requests are, I've got a nice little surprise brewing for you.
Actually, I'm not sure any more, I thought I had dolphin digestion worked out but I may be confusing them with baleen whales, who do indeed have a muscular forestomach.
https://baleinesendirect.org/en/how.....ace-in-whales/
I was at a new furry con this weekend in Los Angeles and the drawing area was frequented by mundanes. Unable to draw anything adult, I instead worked on less wang-infested stuff, as you'll see as I post more of it.
https://baleinesendirect.org/en/how.....ace-in-whales/
I was at a new furry con this weekend in Los Angeles and the drawing area was frequented by mundanes. Unable to draw anything adult, I instead worked on less wang-infested stuff, as you'll see as I post more of it.
Well, what limits the size of food baleen whales can eat is, of course, their esophagus. Since they evolved to eat little fish and krill, they never needed a larger one.
Having one ending up a freak with a flexible gullet is an interesting idea, and one that actually has some plausibility.
Having one ending up a freak with a flexible gullet is an interesting idea, and one that actually has some plausibility.
Freaky mutations do happen. There's certainly room in a big baleen whale's stomach for an entire human, but problem one is getting them there, problem 2 is actually digesting them. Seabirds swallowed by baleen whales tend to go all the way through still shaped like birds, so for whatever reason a baleen whale's stomach doesn't do much to birds and presumably other non-krill, non-small-fish. Maybe they are cycled through the stomach so fast that a system designed to digest krill doesn't have time?
Well, krill and birds are both made of meat, but birds have some protection: Their feathers. Most bird-eating animals, when consuming larger birds, will pluck them, as feathers cause indigestion.
It's likely that you're right: The krill and small fish have a lot more surface area to volume ratio for the enzymes to act on, so they liquefy very fast - far faster than a feathered-coated bird. A few birds here and there wouldn't trip the stomach sensors - far as the digestive system is concerned, they're just roughage. However, your whale wouldn't need any modifications to it's digestive system at all; since it's eating larger food items, the "ready to move on" sensors wouldn't trip until THEY are liquefied, and it's still a carnivore's stomach you are talking about.
It's likely that you're right: The krill and small fish have a lot more surface area to volume ratio for the enzymes to act on, so they liquefy very fast - far faster than a feathered-coated bird. A few birds here and there wouldn't trip the stomach sensors - far as the digestive system is concerned, they're just roughage. However, your whale wouldn't need any modifications to it's digestive system at all; since it's eating larger food items, the "ready to move on" sensors wouldn't trip until THEY are liquefied, and it's still a carnivore's stomach you are talking about.
I always get confused with birds and dolphins as well. The way I understood it, baleen whales churn fish into paste in the forestomach and in dolphins and orcas is more of an "evolutionary left over" but don't quote me on that.
Also nice picture, according to the story that bulge deserved any of the discussed digestion methods ;)
Also nice picture, according to the story that bulge deserved any of the discussed digestion methods ;)
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