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You think that's weird? Wait until you read about cannulated cows: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannulated_cow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannulated_cow

• jamessb 11y ago
  In the 19th Centrury, everal experiments on human digestion were conducted on someone with a gunshot wound that left a fistula providing access to the stomach, somewhat like those cannula: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Beaumont#Experiments_with_St._Martin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Beaumont#Experiments_w...
• stephen 11y ago
  As a kid, we went on a field trip to a place that had a cannulated cow and they let us put a (gloved) hand in to feel what it was like. ...I forget if I actually did it, I remember it being warm and bumpy, but I might also be projecting memories of what the other kids said.
• tonyhburns 11y ago
  My girlfriend's sister is a grad student in the dairy nutrition program at the nearby university, and she gave me a tour of the farm where I saw a few cows with these. Like the article says, the device allows direct access to one of the cow's stomachs essentially. This lets the researchers take more direct samples of the stomach contents when testing different kinds of feed.
• rootbear 11y ago
  They had some of these at the University of Maryland at College Park when I was an Undergad.