How are goats able to eat poisonous leaves like sumac, ivy and oak?

Question

How are goats able to eat poisonous leaves like sumac, ivy and oak?

In: Biology

Answer 1

Poisons are just chemicals that hurts you. Usually, these chemicals are organic molecules that, once broken down, don’t have much effet. In order to break down an organic molecule, an animal can use some acid (like your the one in your stomach), enzymes or will uses some bacterias.

So goat just have the propers tools in their digestive system to break down what is toxic to us.