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What’s in a Stomach?

  • March 4, 2014
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

Animals known as ruminants have complex stomachs to help them digest food. Cattle, sheep, and goat stomachs have four chambers, while camel stomachs have three. But some animals — including the platypus and many fish, such as carp — have no stomach at all!

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