{"id":1506,"date":"2016-10-08T12:59:19","date_gmt":"2016-10-08T19:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/?p=1506"},"modified":"2016-10-08T12:59:19","modified_gmt":"2016-10-08T19:59:19","slug":"stomach-of-a-cow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/2016\/10\/08\/stomach-of-a-cow\/","title":{"rendered":"Stomach of a Cow"},"content":{"rendered":"

You may have heard that cows have 4 stomachs, but that is not actually accurate. \u00a0Cows, like all other vertebrates, have the same basic blueprint for the digestive system:<\/p>\n

mouth –> esophagus –> \u00a0stomach \u00a0–> small\u00a0intestine –> large\u00a0intestine \u00a0–> anus<\/p>\n

There is one stomach, but that stomach is divided into compartments to facilitate the digestion of plant material. \u00a0 Ruminants<\/strong> are\u00a0hoofed mammals like sheep, cows, and giraffes, that \u00a0eat plant material which is digested in a compartment of the stomach called the rumen<\/strong>. \u00a0 Cows will also regurgitate the contents of this chamber and re-chew the contents (cud).<\/p>\n

This image from the Household Physician, 1905 shows that lateral view of a cow’s digestive system. \u00a0(Image Credit: \u00a0William Cresswell, \u00a0via Flickr)<\/a>\u00a0with the rumen (pouch) removed to show the other structures. \u00a0It is the first section or chamber of the stomach.<\/p>\n

\"household-physician-1905-cow-flickr\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You may have heard that cows have 4 stomachs, but that is not actually accurate. \u00a0Cows, like all other vertebrates, have the same basic blueprint for the digestive system: mouth –> esophagus –> \u00a0stomach \u00a0–> small\u00a0intestine –> large\u00a0intestine \u00a0–> anus There is one stomach, but that stomach is divided into compartments to facilitate the digestion of plant material. \u00a0 Ruminants are\u00a0hoofed mammals like sheep, cows, and giraffes, that \u00a0eat plant material which is digested in a compartment of the stomach called the rumen. \u00a0 Cows will also regurgitate the contents of this chamber and re-chew the contents (cud). This image <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1508,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[328,325,44,329,326,327,42],"class_list":["post-1506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anatomical","tag-cud","tag-digestion","tag-digestive","tag-mammals","tag-rumen","tag-ruminant","tag-stomach","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1509,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506\/revisions\/1509"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}