• Leans Prey
• Willing Pred
• Unwilling Prey
• Digestion
As a gryphon, Ruzzy's digestive system starts with his beak. He has no teeth, but can bite down with the sharp edges. He must make a bobbing motion to swallow.
He has a short neck, before the prey slips into the crop. The crop sits at the base of his neck, and is a soft squishy sack that safely stores treats for a time. He can control whether things come back up from his crop or are pushed further along.
The stomach is like any other and digests things, and he can't bring stuff back up voluntarily.
The gizzard is a strong muscular organ pass the stomach that receives its fluids and can crunch down and break bones through mechanical action. Hard objects may get lodged here and used to pulverize prey. Once thoroughly liquified, the chyme is pushed on, but the indigestibles like fur, bones, clothing and the like are compressed into a pellet, and returned to the crop, where they will be later expelled out the mouth.
Everything else proceeds as normal, through the small intestine, the large intestine, and then out, with a note that anything expelled typically contains no trace of the prey unless he overate.
• Leans Prey
• Willing Pred
• Unwilling Prey
• Digestion
Cheerful and easy going, Ruzzy finds himself as somewhat small for a gryphon, and being a more preyish species himself he can fall prey to many a different suave or greedy pred. He likes to hang out among other gryphons and exotic creatures, and his naivity can make him more susceptible to ending up as a snack for others.
Since turning into a Gryphon, Ruzzy has found himself with a few more cravings than he had as a zebra. Occasioanlly he finds himself hungering for proper meat and he gives into his inctincts, consuming prey. His more predatory friends also have a habbit of trying to encourage him along towards such methods.