part 2
Saliva
CARNIVORE: No digestive enzymes
OMNIVORE: No digestive enzymes
HERBIVORE: Carbohydrate digesting enzymes
HUMAN: Carbohydrate digesting enzymes

Stomach Type
CARNIVORE: Simple
OMNIVORE: Simple
HERBIVORE: Simple or multiple chambers
HUMAN: Simple

Stomach Acidity
CARNIVORE: Less than or equal to pH 1 with food in stomach
OMNIVORE: Less than or equal to pH 1 with food in stomach
HERBIVORE: pH 4 to 5 with food in stomach
HUMAN: pH 4 to 5 with food in stomach

Stomach Capacity
CARNIVORE: 60% to 70% of total volume of digestive tract
OMNIVORE: 60% to 70% of total volume of digestive tract
HERBIVORE: Less than 30% of total volume of digestive tract
HUMAN: 21% to 27% of total volume of digestive tract

Length of Small Intestine
CARNIVORE: 3 to 6 times body length
OMNIVORE: 4 to 6 times body length
HERBIVORE: 10 to more than 12 times body length
HUMAN: 10 to 11 times body length

Colon
CARNIVORE: Simple, short and smooth
OMNIVORE: Simple, short and smooth
HERBIVORE: Long, complex; may be sacculated
HUMAN: Long, sacculated

Liver
CARNIVORE: Can detoxify vitamin A
OMNIVORE: Can detoxify vitamin A
HERBIVORE: Cannot detoxify vitamin A
HUMAN: Cannot detoxify vitamin A

Kidney
CARNIVORE: Extremely concentrated urine
OMNIVORE: Extremely concentrated urine
HERBIVORE: Moderately concentrated urine
HUMAN: Moderately concentrated urine

Nails
CARNIVORE: Sharp claws
OMNIVORE: Sharp claws
HERBIVORE: Flattened nails or blunt hooves
HUMAN: Flattened nails

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The only issue would likely be if the hook(s) got caught in it's intestines. With any luck, they would be degraded enough by stomach acid that they would break if caught. Consider the size of the animal, a piece of wire and a few beads and/or spoons would pass right through, probably un-noticed. Even the lead shouldn't be a problem. These animals eat full size seals, with sharp heavy bones all the time, and they do just fine. That said, it would have been the right thing to do to remove the tackle before feeding the whales.
Now, when this happens salmon fishing it's usually a seal stealing the fish, and they often just bite the body off so they don't eat the hooks. The whale likely didn't get the whole fish (since it was still attached to the line and being pulled) so tackle may not be an issue at all.

1) I think they're both of equal difficulty, assuming both the blind and deaf persons were that way since birth.
2) As a former trombonist, no. You make sure you give yourself ample room to slide. I guess it could happen to the inexperienced.
3) Nothing, by the time the coke is in your stomach it would already be fizzing and interacting with stomach acid.

jeez. at least use good vodka. stupid kids. ha!


yeah, and the most economical route for many drugs, especially those partially broken down by stomach acid.

Actually, acid doesn't really digest food into smaller, usable particles for absorption. The real reason for stomach acid is antibacterial. In fact, in people with ulcers, a common procedure used to be a vagotomy to stop acid secretion without any consequences for their digestion or absorption of food. Today, we use antacid medications instead of the invasive and irreversible procedure. Pancreatic enzymes are the real reason for digestion.

Fantastic. Give bacteria direct access to your colon without the protection of your stomach acid. Dysentery here we come!

This same idea was practiced on a human a couple hundred years ago. A soldier was shot in the stomach, and some doctor would do experiments buy lowering pieces of meat into the stomach acid to see how it works. I wish I could find an article, though.

i tried to find a valid debunking of this experiment in this thread, but i couldn't. just a load of stomach acid fermenting.