The ox and its kindred / by R. Lydekker.

  • Richard Lydekker
Date:
[1912]
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: The ox and its kindred / by R. Lydekker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    time as the animals have completed their feeding, and retired to repose and digest their meal. Before the digestive process can take place, the food has, however, to be regurgitated from the paunch to the mouth, where it is subjected to complete mastication by means of the powerful series of mill-like cheek- teeth characteristic of all ruminating artiodactyles. After this process has been accomplished, the thoroughly chewed food is once more swallowed, Stomach of a Sheep, partially cut open to show the Internal Structure a’> oesophagus, or gullet; ru, rumen, or paunch ; ret, reticulum, or honeycomb; ps, psalterium, or manyplies ; ab, abomasum ; py, pylorus ; du, duodenum, or commencement of the small intestine' (From “ British Museum Guide to Great Game Animals.”) and passed, not into the paunch, but into the true stomach, or reticulum, where it undergoes the greater part of its digestion, subsequently passing in turn into the other two chambers, where the process is completed, and finally into the small intestine or bowel. When a ruminant is engaged in chewing the cud, after a mouthful of food has been masticated and swallowed, the animal, as may be noticed by watching a herd of recumbent cows shortly after their meal, will remain perfectly still for a few
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