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why is the gallbladder located under the liver in pig?

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  • dybydx
    Lv 4
    4 weeks ago

    Its in the same place in all mammals.  

  • Anonymous
    4 weeks ago

    Everything gotta be someplace.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    4 weeks ago

    Because pigs descended from a remote ancestral mammal in which the gallbladder was under the liver.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    4 weeks ago

    As far as I know that is where it is in all mammals, including us humans. Bile is constantly produced in the liver and secreted by it. Bile gets stored in the gallbladder so near the liver is a convenient place. The gallbladder releases bile when stimulated to do so by the presence of lipids in the duodenum. That is what bladders do, they are storage reservoirs.

  • 1 month ago

    Where the hell else should it be?

  • Pearl
    Lv 7
    1 month ago

    cause thats where god put it

  • ?
    Lv 5
    1 month ago

    Same as in most mammals

    because gall (which anglos call "bile" for some reason) is produced by the liver, and stored in the gallbladder so it can be released into the small intestine when needed

  • ?
    Lv 6
    1 month ago

    It is in humans too. It is because the liver secretes bile into the gall bladder to store for digestive use when the stomach is digesting fats.

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