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Llama Digestive System
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Digestive System of a Llama
Family History
Llamas are part of the camelid family, which is the same family as camels. With the Ice Age, llamas became extinct in North America. Llamas migrated to South America and took up residence in the land of the Andean Mountains. They are the oldest domesticated animal in the world being domestic for 3,000 to 4,000 years ago.
Ruminant or Non-ruminant?
A ruminant stomach's compartments are the rumen, omasum, abomasum, and the riticulum.
Parts of the Stomach
The rumen is where the food goes once you take it in. This is like a chamber of fermentation full of bacteria and a water like substance. The water like substance break down the cell wall on the plant cell and can take the roughage of the cell wall in it's chamber.
The substances that just went through the rumen move to the omasum which absorbs some of the water substance and bacteria released from the rumen. Then move the substances on to the abomasum.
The abomasum is full of what we know as stomach acids. The stomach acid splashes on to the cell membranes on cells from the substance eaten and explode. Once the cell burst the organelles inside disperse to where the nutrients and energy you receive from the food get fulfill the necessity of their need.
Llama Lifestyle
Llamas are herbivores. They need energy, fiber, protein, and vitamins to maintain healthy. The way they receive their energy and fiber is by eating: hay, pasture, corn, and oats. For protein they eat grass hay, alfalfa hay, and geldings. Vitamins they have a high requirement of Vitamin C, they can receive other vitamins my powder or pellets. They each about a pound of hay a day or a bale a week.
Life Span:
Llamas live about 15-29 years. Baby llamas are called cria and should weigh 18-30 pounds. Adult llamas should weigh 250-400 pounds.
Digestive System
Llamas have one stomach with three compartments. The three compartments are the rumen, omasum, and abomasum. When they eat they swallow it, regurgitate their food, chew it in the back teeth in a figure 8 motion swallowing and regurgitating it again. They repeat this process 55-75 times. After their food is fully ate they then have a cud come up and they chew on it.
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Diet:
Llamas are considered a non-ruminate or a modified ruminant because they have three compartments to their stomach.
Llama's stomachs are missing the riticulum. They only have the other three compartments.
A ruminant animal is an animal with four compartments to their stomachs, such as cattle, sheep, goats, and giraffes.