THE curious food pellets described by Morot and mentioned in Dr. Madsen's letter must be familiar to all laboratory workers who have occasion to open the rabbit's stomach. They have frequently ...

SOME years ago my attention was directed to a paper by Morot (1882) 1 (carefully abstracted by A. V. Wille 2). It seems to have been overlooked in physiological literature. Since his results ...

Like other ruminants, reindeer spend a considerable amount of time chewing on regurgitated food, making it smaller and easier to digest. Finding time to sleep amid all this cud chewing might be tough.

Why so they chew cud? Cows will on average spend two thirds of their time grazing, one third chewing cud and the other third idling. Initial feeding is done in a hurry. When chewing the cud ...

One possible strategy is the opportunity for rest during rumination -- the re-chewing of partially digested food, which is an important component of digestion for reindeer and other ruminants.

We can’t get over how cute these two are. They were totally in sync. When mama started chewing cud, her baby wanted to do so too! So of course she pretended to be just like mom in the sweet clip.

Furrer thought maybe something was happening during rumination, the process of chewing their cud. Sponsor Message "While they chew," Furrer says, "they are in a body position that is very similar ...