Camels are not afraid to prick their mouths when they eat cactus. What is the reason?

The world is full of wonders, and the magical nature has given birth to countless strange things. Cactus is one of them. There are no leaves and thorns all over the body, and even more amazing is the camel. When eating cactus, they are not worried about being stabbed in the mouth. Why?

I believe many friends have been stabbed by cactus. The prickle of cactus is very hard, and it hurts to prick your hand. Why can a camel eat cactus, but its mouth doesn't seem to be hurt? In fact, the reason why camels eat cactus without sticking to their mouths has a lot to do with the structure of their mouths. Isn't your mouth full of teeth and meat?

Due to the long-term drought and water shortage in the desert, food resources are also very scarce. In order to survive, camels can only choose to eat cactus, just to adapt to the desert environment. Camels have rough mouths and tongues, too. Camels in the desert have long been used to eating cacti, so their mouths and tongues are particularly thick. In addition, there are some keratinized papillae in camel's mouth.

Yes, we humans don't have such things in the mouths of camels. The camel's mouth is full of thorns. These spines are conical, similar to sharpened pencils. What are the uses of these meat spines? These spines are very tough, and some of them have formed a protective skin on the outside, which can resist all kinds of external stimuli.

And they can help camels control the same direction of food. Isn't it amazing? But after these cactus thorns are eaten by camels, won't they hang other organs in their stomachs? Does the camel's esophagus or stomach have a very special structure? Yes, that's true. We all know that the desert is very dry and it is easy to lack water. So the camel's stomach is divided into three parts, one is used to store water, the other is used to store food, and the other is used to repackage and digest the stomach. So it is very easy for camels to eat hay or cactus.

What's more interesting is that camels have the ability to ruminate, which means that after eating for a period of time, camels will return semi-digested food from their stomachs to their mouths for re-chewing. Therefore, when the cactus is really excreted by the camel as feces, the cactus at this time is no longer the cactus that used to be able to stab very hard. In fact, camels don't like cactus very much. But the desert itself doesn't have that much food to eat. So when camels have no choice, they have to make do with cacti.