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Do birds have teeth?

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Birds do not have teeth, although they may have ridges on their bills that help them grip food. Birds swallow their food whole, and their gizzard (a muscular part of their stomach) grinds up the food so they can digest it. read more

Ask any biologist and the answer will be “absolutely not!”, but “absolute” is a relative term and when one stretches the definitions of what makes a bird or a tooth, birds with teeth aren’t absolutely impossible anymore. read more

Best Answer: Birds do not have teeth. In place of teeth, soft billed, or birds that you find in the wild in the US, swollow the whole piece of food. From there it goes to their crop. read more

Some birds do have teeth - a mutant strain of chicken was found in 2005 / 6 to have teeth and further study revealed that the genes for teeth are present in chickens but the trigger to activate those genes is no longer present in chicken development. read more

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