Morphological comparative gastrointestimal tract of birds of Gruiforms

Abstract

Brazil has a greater wealth of birdlife in the world with over 1700 species, of which more than 10% are endemic, which makes the country one of the most important in relation to investments in conservation. Fact that arouses the need for more knowledge of anatomical and physiological order in these animals. The digestive system is the "box" of the body responsible for the maintenance of life, and the digestive tract of each bird adapted to process and use as efficiently as possible the food available in their habitat. In order to increase their knowledge of poultry anatomical gastrointestinal, approached in a comparative study using five specimens of birds, representing the Gruiform order, donated by IBAMA, Uberlândia/MG and were send to the Laboratory Teaching and Research in Wildlife (LAPAS) UFU of the animals were photographed, identified as to the order, genus, species and dissected for the purpose of obtaining information on topography, shape and dimensions of the segments of the digestive tract in different species . At the end of the study were observed some differences in the topography, size and composition of the digestive tract, between species of the same order. Features seen include the most relevant characteristic spindle form in the stomach chemical common moorhen blue, when compared with other species.