The Tiger's Digestive System, Kara G [best non fiction books of all time .TXT] 📗

"Hi, I did not see you there! My name is Dr. James. I work for Black Pine Animal Sanctuary." "Hi, my name is Mary. I was wondering if you could answer some of my questions about the tigers digestive sytem?" "Yes I would love to!" said Dr. James.

"Would you like to visit one of our tigers?" asked Dr. James. "Yes, I would love to go see one of the tigers!" Mary said with excitement.

"This is Ticha, one of our tigers here at Black Pine Animal Sanctuary. Ticha will be having a test on Monday on her digestive system. Ticha seems to not be swollowing properly." Dr. James explained. "Oh, that sounds awful!" said Mary sadly.

"Dr. James? What is the digestive system?" "The digestive system is a system in your body and a tigers body that helps break down food. The food is then later used as an engery source." Dr. James responded. "Oh, so the digestive system pretty much makes our food into energy?" asked Mary. "Yes, that's correct!" said Dr. James joyfully.

"I have another question for you! What is the first step of the digestion process?" asked Mary. "The first part of the digestion process is putting food into your mouth. Then your teeth begin to make the food smaller to swallow. After your teeth makes the food samller your saliva makes your food softer. Then the last thing that happens during the first step of the digestion process is, when your tongue takes a part. The tongue helps swallow the food by pushing the food back to the throat for when you swallow the food." Dr. James explained. "That makes since! Thanks Dr. James!" said Mary.

"What happens to the food after it is out of the throat?" asked Mary. "The food then reaches the esophagus. The esophagus looks like and acts like a tube. It helps the digestion process by pushing the food down to the stomach." said Dr. James.

"What happens to the food once it reaches the stomach?" asked Mary. "Once the food reaches the stomach, it lands into a juice like liquid. This liquid help make it into a thick liquid. This thick liquid sits in your stomach for about two hours" said Dr. James.

"What happens to the food once it is out of the stomach?" asked Mary. "When the food is out of the stomach the food enters the small intestines. The small intestines look like a large tube that is about 20-25 feet long. The food then runs down through the small intestines. While it is running through small intestines the nutrients then picks up many tiny objects that goes into your bloodstream. These tiny objects are called vitamins, minerals, proteins, carbohydrates, and fats. Then a tiny object called villi collects these things and sends them into your bloodstream where it sends it to your body cells." said Dr. James.

"Also the food that did not get digestied goes through the large intestines. The large intestines is about five feet long. The food then comes into the large intestines as a liquid. This liquid has been removed from all water. Then the other liquid that is thicker collects at the end of the large intestines. Then the food will leave the tiger." said Dr. James. "Oh, I see. Thanks so much for your help!"

"Mary would you like to come back to my office on Monday? Ticha will be getting her tests done. I see that you are very interested in the tiger's digestion system. I can show you what everything actually looks like on Monday." said Dr. James. "I would love to come on Monday to observe Ticha's test.  Thanks for inviting me!" "I guess I will see you Monday then?" asked Dr. James. "Yes, yes you will." Mary responded.

"Hey your back! Just in time for Ticha's test!" said Dr. James excitingly. "Yes, I was not planning on being late. I barley slept through the weekend I was just so excited!" said Mary overwhelmingly. "Lets go to the other room where my partner that is helping me out, Dr. Ann is waiting with Ticha! Follow me!" said Dr. James.

"This is Mary our guest! She will be observing our test. She is interested in the digestive system, so I invited her to see how it looks and works in person." said Dr. James to Dr. Ann. "Great, I can't wait to get started!" said Dr. Ann excintingly.

"Ok, you can stand right here." said Dr. James to Mary. "Before we get started we all, need to all put on latex gloves so that we don't get germs on our hands or get germs into Ticha's system. We will also all need to put on masks so that we don't breath into Ticha's system." Dr. Ann suggested. "Thanks for the gloves and mask!"said Mary excitingly.

"Ok lets get started now." Dr. Ann said as she was picking up a tool. "Ok sounds great!" Dr. James said. "I already cut Ticha open before you came in so that Ticha would be ready." said Dr. Ann. "Ok, that's great! Lets start from there then." Dr. James suggested.

 "Now Mary this is the mouth, and when she puts the food into her mouth, then it goes down to this tube called the esophagus. Once it goes through the esophagus it goes to something that looks like a bag. This thing that looks like a bag is called the stomach. Once it goes through the stomach it goes down to this spiral looking thing. This spiral is called the small intestines. Then the nutrients goes to your bloodstream and then the food that was not digested goes to the large intestines. After it goes through the large intestines it collects and will leave your body." Dr. Ann explained.

"Wow, the digestive system is so cool! I can't believe I got to see the inside of a tiger!" said Mary joyfully. "I don't understand what was wrong with Ticha, did you figure that out?" asked Mary. "Yes, I did while Dr. Ann was showing you Ticha's digestion system. The problem was that her small intestines weren't working correctly. This will be something that is easy to fix!" Dr. James said excitingly. 

"Ok well my friend Dr. Louis will be fixing and closing Ticha up. Meanwhile you, Dr. Ann, and I can take off our masks and latex gloves, so we can head down to the front room." Dr. James said to Mary. "Ok sounds like a plan!" said Mary. "Ok follow us!" said Dr. James.

"I have a question for you. Do you have any pictures that you can print out or that you can give to me of Ticha?" asked Mary. "I have one that you can have!" said Dr. James. "Thanks! I wanted to have a picture of her so that I can show Ticha to my friends and family!" Mary explained. "I can go get it for you so that you don't have to go get it." said Dr. Ann to Dr. James. "Ok thanks!" said Dr. James.

"Here you go Dr. James." said Dr. Ann. "Thank you very much." said Dr. James. "Here, this is Ticha's first picture after we cleaned her up when we recieved her for Black Pine Animal Sanctuary." Dr. James explained. "Thanks, this is a nice picture of Ticha!" said Mary. "Yes, it is one of our favorites too!" said Dr. James.

"I think I need to head home. Thanks for everything! I am one lucky girl to be able to see the inside of a tiger!" said Mary. "Your welcome Mary! I had a wonderful time sharing that information with you!" said Dr. James. "I also had a great time showing you the inside of the tiger!" said Dr. Ann. "Ok, well I will see you soon! Bye!" said Mary. "Bye!" said Dr. Ann and Dr. James.