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just something I've been pondering..

and if someone is a vegetarian, does their poop differ from meat-lovers?

2007-03-17 04:21:17 · 6 answers · asked by brubabe 5 in Science & Mathematics Biology

6 answers

Different digestive systems...

Cows chew the cud. This means that the eat the grass and it passes into one stomach where it is partailly broken down by one set of digestive enzymes. Then they bring this grass back into their mouths and chew it a second time before passing it to a second stomach for further digestion. This means that the grass is much more broken up and digested than in many other animals and the poop doesn't show nay signs of grass or straw left in it.

Horses don't chew the cud - they actually get much less nutritional value out of the grass they eat and it passes through them relatively unchanged

Deer are somewhere in between but also many deer also eat other plant material such as tree bark, softer plants and even lichens and mosses. Deer are also better adapted to conserving water by re-absorbing water from their poop before expelling it. This makes their poop into the characteristic "pellets".

The poop of vegetarians and meat eaters may vary depending mainly on whether or not the meat lover also eats vegetables, particularly those that are high in fibre.

In the western world many people don't eat enough dietary fibre and as a result their poop becomes are and compacted and often these people suffer from constipation. People who eat fibre usually don't suffer from this problem as theit poop is bulkier and softer due to the fibre.

2007-03-17 05:19:21 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Poop of every animal or human regardless of their diet will be different. Its because of the digestion process that this happens. Every being has different number and different type of bacteria in the stomach also someone maybe has a stronger stomach acid than others, plus every living thing has a different colon and all that dictates how the poop will look like. No one poops the same.

2016-03-29 02:40:54 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Well, not all grass is the same. For example, in the scats of one herbivore you may find bits of coarse, hard to digest grasses, but not fine, soft, easy to digest grasses or clovers.

A vegetarian's poop may in fact be very different than a meat-eater. Generally, a herbivorous animal has less smelly poop than a carnivore.

2007-03-17 04:59:11 · answer #3 · answered by Niotulove 6 · 0 1

It mainly comes down to different anatomy and physiology. Cows and deer are ruminants- they have a four chambered stomach. After eating, food travels to their stomach where it is processed by the Rumen, Reticulum, Omasum, Abomasum. Microbes living in the stomach further break down the food for the ruminants (alloenzymatic digestion). The food then travels to the small intestine where nutrients are absorbed. In cows, the food is highly processed with a slow turn around time which is why it comes out more runny. Horses have a monogastric (single chamber) stomach and are hind-gut fermentors. The food begins breakdown in the stomach, then travels to the small intestine (for autoenzymatic digestion), and then goes to the cecum for further processing. Food travels quickly through a horse's digestive tract which is why it closely resembles what they ate.

As for human vegetarians vs meat-lovers, here's a link you might find interesting: http://www.e-caps.com/za/ECP?PAGE=ARTICLE&ARTICLE.ID=774&OMI=&AMI=&RETURN_URL=%2Fza%2FECP%3FPAGE%3DENDURANCE_LIBRARY%26OMI%3D%26AMI%3D&RETURN_TEXT=Endurance+Library

2007-03-19 21:18:57 · answer #4 · answered by CuttingHorses 2 · 0 0

I'll add to GLH....

Every species has a different form of bacteria to help digest its food. Thus, the waste comes out different.

2007-03-17 06:41:20 · answer #5 · answered by Joan H 6 · 0 0

differnt bacteria, different digestive tracts

2007-03-17 14:02:01 · answer #6 · answered by ALM 6 · 0 0

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