Can someone please find me a diagram of a lion's digestive system?This is for a school project and I am supposed to include a diagram in a PowerPoint presentation, but I can't find on Google, can someone please help me out and find one? Please!
Posted by dukefenton
Doubtful; but it would look very much like that of a domestic cat. Lions are just very large cats, after all.
Notable features include: teeth designed for shearing and cutting flesh, a relatively short intestine, and no significant development of the cecum. All cats are obligate carnivores, and their digestive system is not well adapted for digesting plant material.
Other significant points not immediately visible include:
* dependence on a consistently high protein level in the diet
* inability to convert carotene (vegetable form of Vitamin A) to retinol (the metabolically active form)
* dependence on high levels of arginine in the diet
* limited ability to store starches; cats create most of their blood sugar from amino acids (gluconeogenesis)
* limited ability to detoxify and excrete certain toxins not found in carnivorous sources
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