2006-11-20 09:11:51 · 8 answers · asked by Brian 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
The gizzard is a specially-adapted stomach that is found in birds, reptiles, earthworms, some insects, mollusks, and other creatures that is used for grinding up food. It has a thick, muscular wall in many invertebrate animals, enabling a powerful crushing and pulverizing action. In certain insects and mollusks, the gizzard features chitinous plates or teeth.
The gizzard is also known as a ventriculus, a gastric mill, or a gigerium.
2006-11-20 09:15:19 · answer #1 · answered by Lachelle 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The gizzard is a part of a birds, reptilies, earthworms, mollusks, and some insects stomach that aids in digestion. Its purpose is to grind up food with a thick, muscular wall. Birds first soften their food in their crop, which is located in the lower part of the esophagus, then the food is then transferred into the gizzard. Many people enjoy eating gizzards. I heard they taste good fried!
2006-11-20 09:44:30 · answer #2 · answered by MissB 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The gizzard is a part of the turkey's stomach that helps it digest harsher items, like seeds
2006-11-20 09:21:32 · answer #3 · answered by ♥chelley♥ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Chicken don't have teeth--they swallow some gravel and hold in the organ called the gizzard and then they swallow grain and the combination of the gravel and the grain grinds the food which then moves into the stomach--that is what i was told on my grandparents farm--hope it is right!
2006-11-20 09:17:14 · answer #4 · answered by NuncProTunc 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A specially adapted stomach in birds.
2006-11-20 09:15:56 · answer #5 · answered by Chris J 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Muscular second stomach of birds, in which food is crushed and ground.
2006-11-20 09:15:28 · answer #6 · answered by merviedz trespassers 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's a organ inside the turkey
2006-11-20 09:13:39 · answer #7 · answered by kimberly k 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
an organ such as a heart, liver or kidney
2006-11-20 09:13:38 · answer #8 · answered by sweet p 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋