• 16 parts
  • Checked October 2026

Label the Rabbit Digestive System

Sixteen numbers on a rabbit's digestive tract: eight inside the rabbit, eight on the gut laid out flat.

Label the Rabbit Digestive System

Name Date

Numbered worksheet

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
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Write the name of each numbered part.Answer key

  1. Mouth
  2. Esophagus
  3. Stomach
  4. Small intestine
  5. Cecum
  6. Colon
  7. Rectum
  8. Anus
  9. Duodenum
  10. Jejunum
  11. Ileum
  12. Sacculus rotundus
  13. Vermiform appendix
  14. Proximal colon
  15. Fusus coli
  16. Distal colon

Drawn for this site on 2026-10-01 from plain geometry. Licence: own work.

Each numbered ring is a button. Use the arrow keys to move between them and Enter to choose. Names are read out in Study, and once a part is answered.

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The tract, mouth to anus 8

  1. Mouth Here the teeth cut and grind the food. Saliva is mixed in before it is swallowed.
  2. Esophagus The tube that carries swallowed food from the throat to the stomach.
  3. Stomach A simple, roomy stomach. A healthy rabbit always has some food in it.
  4. Small intestine Most of the food is absorbed here. Its parts are the duodenum, jejunum and ileum.
  5. Cecum A very large, thin-walled blind sac. Bacteria in it ferment the fine plant fiber.
  6. Colon It sorts what is left. Coarse fiber moves on; fine bits go back to the cecum.
  7. Rectum The short, straight last part of the gut. It lies inside the pelvis.
  8. Anus Droppings leave the body here. A rabbit eats its soft droppings straight from this opening.

Small intestine and hindgut 8

  1. Duodenum The first loop of the small intestine. Bile enters it close to the stomach.
  2. Jejunum The long middle part of the small intestine, thrown into many folds.
  3. Ileum The last part of the small intestine. It ends at the sacculus rotundus.
  4. Sacculus rotundus A round, thick-walled bulb that ends the ileum. The cecum and colon join here.
  5. Vermiform appendix The narrow, blind end of the cecum. Its thick wall is packed with lymph tissue.
  6. Proximal colon The pouched first part of the colon. It separates coarse fiber from fine particles.
  7. Fusus coli A short, muscular stretch between the two parts of the colon. Soft cecotropes are shaped here.
  8. Distal colon The long last part of the colon. Hard, round, dry pellets take shape in it.

How this list was compiled: Every name was checked on 2026-10-01 in two sources, for facts only and with nothing copied: (1) the chapter Rabbit Basic Science of a veterinary textbook of rabbit medicine (second edition, 2013), read in the open archive at https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7158370/; (2) B. A. Bensley, Practical Anatomy of the Rabbit (second edition, 1918, public domain), the digestive system and the dissection of the intestines, https://archive.org/details/practicalanatomy00bensuoft; (3) Wikipedia, Cecotrope, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecotrope; (4) a veterinary manual's page on the nutrition of rabbits, for what the soft droppings carry, https://www.merckvetmanual.com/exotic-and-laboratory-animals/rabbits/nutrition-of-rabbits. A name only one of them uses is not a part of this page. Licence: own work

The drawing: Drawn for this site on 2026-10-01 from plain geometry; nothing traced. Licence: own work

How it works

To label the rabbit digestive system, write a name on the line for each number. Numbers 1 to 8 are inside the rabbit, mouth to anus. Numbers 9 to 16 are on the lower drawing, the gut laid out flat.

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Rabbit digestive system word bank

Sixteen names, in alphabetical order: anus, cecum, colon, distal colon, duodenum, esophagus, fusus coli, ileum, jejunum, mouth, proximal colon, rectum, sacculus rotundus, small intestine, stomach, vermiform appendix.

The numbers in the order food meets them

Inside the rabbit: 1, 2, 3, 4, then 6, 7 and 8. Number 5, the wide coil low in the belly, is a side branch. On the lower drawing: 9, 10 and 11, then the round bulb, 12. From the bulb the bumpy tube, 14, climbs to the smooth swelling, 15, and the narrow tube with pellets in it, 16, leads away. The bag at the far left and the wide curved sac have no number there: they are 3 and 5 again, and 13 is the sac's slim tip.

  • When marking, oral cavity is right on line 1, gullet on line 2, appendix on line 13 and ascending colon on line 14.
  • Number 12, the sacculus rotundus, is found only in the rabbit.

Questions and answers

Can rabbits vomit?

No. A rabbit's stomach, number 3 on the worksheet, has a well-developed cardiac sphincter, a ring of muscle that prevents vomiting.

What does a rabbit's appendix do?

It gives off an alkaline fluid, rich in bicarbonate. The fluid buffers the acids that the bacteria of the cecum make as they ferment fiber. The appendix is number 13 on the worksheet.

Do a rabbit's teeth keep growing?

Yes. All of a rabbit's teeth grow continuously and wear against each other, which keeps their shape. The front teeth, drawn at the opening of the mouth, wear to a fine cutting edge.

Where is most of the food in a rabbit's digestive system?

In two places: the stomach, number 3, and the cecum, number 5. Together they hold over 80 percent of what is in the tract.

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