Assertion: ostrich | /r/CapableOf | grind up their food
Facets:
value: in their gizzards
type: LOCATION
value: in their stomach
type: LOCATION
value: in not the stomach
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: They also eat sand and pebbles, to help grind up their food inside their gizzard, which is a small pouch where food is crushed and ripped up before it reaches the stomach.
text: They do not have any teeth so to aid digestion they will eat small stones to help grind down their food in their stomach.
text: Since they lack teeth, ostriches swallow pebbles, sand and small stones to grind up food in their gizzard.
text: They swallow pebbles to help grind the food in their gizzards.
text: So, they eat stones to help grind their food in not the stomach but their gizzards.
text: They have even been known to eat sand and pebbles, which helps them grind up their food inside their gizzard, a small pouch where food is crushed and ripped up before it reaches the stomach.
text: The myth may have resulted from the fact that, from a distance, when ostriches feed they appear to be burying their head in the sand because they deliberately swallow sand and pebbles to help grind up their food.
text: They also swallow stones to help them grind up and digest their food.
text: Ostriches in the wild and in captivity also eat sand and small stones to help grind up their food because they do not have teeth.
text: They do not have any teeth so to aid digestion they will eat small stones to help grind down their food in their stomach.