How are camels able to eat inedible things, like cacti, without damaging their insides?

Question

How are camels able to eat inedible things, like cacti, without damaging their insides?

In: Biology

Answer 1

As with what the other comment said about the top of camels mouths being a large hard boney plate that lets them crush it up, cacti are not inedible, In fact some cactus types like prickly pear are a actual dish called nopales.