Where does gold come from in bird stomachs
Many such stories can still be heard from hunters in completely different regions of Russia. Here and there, when gutting game (grouse, grouse, ducks, pheasants, hazel grouse), the grains and small gold nuggets are found in its stomachs. So how does this wealth enter the avian organism?
Everyone knows that birds have no teeth. But they have a special organ - a muscle stomach. To make solid food, like grain, easier to digest, birds have to swallow small pebbles. These stones during contraction of the stomach grind food, thereby fulfilling the role of teeth.
So, along with stones that help in digestion, birds peck gold, and sometimes precious minerals like diamonds. In Siberia and the Urals, some gold deposits have been discovered. The hunter shot a game, found a small nugget in the stomach during cutting, and went into the taiga to wash a stream or a river of gold.
