Polar Bear Digestion Case Study

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After being lifted from the plate and placed in the mouth, the poor pizza goes on a long journey through the digestive system and eventually is turned into waste after passing through the 6 primary organs of the digestive tract: the mouth, oesophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine and anus.
The process of digestion starts when Bob the pizza is placed in the mouth. The main structures of the mouth are the teeth, tongue, salivary duct and oesophagus. Bob is killed, being chewed on by the teeth, enclosed in a dark area where he can’t escape. After Bob is ground up by the teeth and moistened by saliva, he is nothing but some crushed up dough, chomped up pepperoni, squishy tomato and mashed up cheese. The saliva in the mouth contains
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This means that they never eat plants or vegetables.

Specifically, a polar bear’s diet mainly consist of seals, carcasses, and when food is scarce; reindeer, small rodents, shellfish, fish and kelp. Although, polar bears hibernate, so when in hibernation, they do not eat.

Seals are polar bears main source of food, particularly because they are very energy-rich. They mainly eat ringed seals and bearded seals. When seals are readily available, polar bears tend to only eat the fat, leaving the rest for scavengers.

They also eat carcasses, which are the remains of an animal’s dead body. They mainly eat the carcasses of a variety of wales walruses and narwhals.

When food is scarce, they will eat reindeer, rodents, fish and kelp, although these will not usually not provide enough energy for the polar bear.

Omnivores such as chipmunks eat plants and animals.

A chipmunk mainly eats nuts and seeds, eggs, insects, fungi, grains, small birds, worms, raw vegetables and fruits. Similarly to polar bears, chipmunks hibernate, but they come out of their burrow every couple of days to collect more

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