The digestive system of a coyote. I’ve no idea why anyone would come to my blog searching for the digestive system of a coyote, but there are worse places to look: I’ve probably got one under one of these piles of laundry…
The digestive systems of all canids are remarkably alike and they all function in the same way. The overall length of the canid digestive tract is short although it remains relative to the size of the dog. This aids in rapid digestion of raw meat. Their simple monogastric stomach is a storage organ capable of holding large amounts of nutrient dense meat and fat. The other function of the stomach is to secrete concentrated solutions of hydrochloric acid, which create the highly acidic environment necessary for initiating digestion of protein in meat and bones as well as destroying pathogenic bacteria that may be ingested.The small intestine is responsible for digestion and for the absorption of nutrients. The carnivore’s gut is extremely efficient at digesting protein and fat, as long as there is little or no carbohydrate (grain-starch) present. Experiments which have measured the amounts of various nutrients eaten and compared these with the amounts passed in canine feces have shown that a healthy animal loses no more than four percent of its fat intake and only a trace of protein. The digestive efficiency of raw meat is 95% and takes place in 2 to 3 hours.The small intestine joins with the large intestine through a small appendage called the cecum. While this has no real purpose in a carnivore, it should be acknowledged as this is a key difference between a carnivore and an herbivore. By the time the food has passed through the animal’s small intestine, the process of digestion and absorption of the nutrients in the food is complete. The large intestine has only one function, which is to extract fluids and form waste material where it is stored in the rectum until it is expelled. The gastrointestinal tract of a carnivore is virtually sterile as most bacteria and other micro-organisms are destroyed by hydrochloric acid in the stomach. Those bacteria that are not eliminated are seldom able to survive the digestive processes. The colon is the exception, as it houses a variety of organisms which form vitamins such as pyridoxine, vitamin B-12, biotin, vitamin K and folic acid.
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Clearly this is your daring persona taking center stage.
Indeed, pretty edgy stuff.
I’m still wondering why I get so many hits for “Narnia Porn”. Although maybe I don’t actually want to know.
Hey can you look at this growth for me as well? ;)
Sure: what do doctors charge down there? I live in Canada, of course, where medical care is free and on your tenth visit you get Canuck’s season’s tickets and a six pack.
I should have been a Canadian.
I dunno; the Canucks aren’t exactly the Oilers.
Is that football?
It’s Canada: what do you think?
Oh. Hockey. Doy.
Hockey is totally sexy. All those large men in armor whacking each other with sticks is like midievel jousting all over. Yay!
Everyone likes hockey: even Christie Brinkley.
Hmm. Good thing she has her looks to fall back on.
My burning question is (no, not the question about the ointment . . .) is: what is the coyote’s stance on mass transit?
Seated, obviously.
http://dogsinthenews.com/issues/0202/articles/020215a.htm
I’ll be impressed when coyotes can read the morning edition and juggle a cup of coffee while standing on the Orange Line into D.C.
Don’t be silly: they already run DC.
Haven’t you ever paid attention to the ChiComs and former Soviets? It’s the running dogs running D.C., not the coyotes.
You’re dating yourself with that one. Next you’ll be talking about Nattering nabobs.
Stop with the negativism
Aren’t you feeling a certain malaise?
this is spiro-ing out of control
…and, SCENE.
There is a pack of coyotes that go back and forth between an apartment complex and the Universal Studios lot. I have never been exactly sure where home is for them, but I used to get out of the lot around te and see them making the trek from the apartments to the lot. They would congregate, in the undrbrush, then go by ones and twos across this real big street between the two. I always worried about them getting hit by a car, but they were pretty car savvy. I always wondered what they were doing on the lot too. Taking over studios and editing equipment late nights? Making coyote movies?
Easy answer – that was Creative Artists Agency
That, my friend, was your best ever!
Oh you fibber. CAA was never that organized.
You mean those weren’t Ovitz’s footsoldiers?
Post-Ovitz, actually: he would have driven them across the boulevard en masse and walked across their broken, bleeding corpses
and for my next trick – the unified field theory
Wow.
The Onion Field theory? Too late now, maybe.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003657130_smithobit08.html
Touche’
Rain, Frontier is being cagey and says I have to ask you if he is Canadian. Is he Canadian?
Oh so no one is talking. Sheesh. A conspiracy.
He’s not Canadian. And some of us attempt to have lives…unfortunately, the attempt isn’t working well.
It pained her so much to say it too, especially since I like anchovies, can name more than three Canadian PM’s and never even considered voting for Shrub . . . .
True. But y’all still live AMONG THEM. I expect you and SG to run off to Barbados together at any moment though.
I just look at it as role-playing Romero’s “Dawn of the Dead” . . . .
Ah. A faux Canadian.
Hardly – I can’t get into the habit of saying ‘eh?’
One good dose of poutine will cure that.
I think I’m ready to defect now . . . can I still get lard-fried fish and chips up there too?
Yes, WITH malt vinegar.
hot damn!