What Has?

Hi folks!  Time for a riddle.  You like riddles don't you?

What has the following features?

• claws
• no pores on skin; perspires through tongue to cool body
• sharp, pointed front teeth to tear flesh
• no flat back molar teeth to grind food
• small salivary glands in the mouth (not needed to pre-digest grains and fruits)
• acid saliva; no enzyme ptyalin to pre-digest grains
• strong hydrochloric acid in stomach to digest tough animal muscle, bone, etc.
• intestinal tract only 3 times body length, so rapidly decaying meat can pass out of body quickly

Man... You guys are good!  No tricking my vegetarian friends, indeed.  What Chucky has just described is a carnivore.

     car·ni·vore 
     [kahr-nuh-vawr, -vohr]
     -noun
     1.  an animal that eats flesh.
     2.  a flesh-eating mammal of the order Carnivora, comprising the dogs, cats, bears,
          seals, and weasels.
     3.  an insectivorous plant.

A herbivore?

• no claws
• perspires through millions of pores on skin
• no sharp, pointed front teeth
• has flat, back molar teeth to grind food
• well-developed salivary glands, needed to pre-digest grains and fruits
• alkaline saliva; much ptyalin to pre-digest grains
• stomach acid 20 times weaker than that of meat-eaters
• intestinal tract several times body length (plant foods decay slowly so can take their time to pass through the body) 

A human?

• (see herbivore)

Credit:  The Comparative Anatomy of Eating, Milton R. Mills, M.D.

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