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What is going on in that picture?
by 1_player 11y ago
What is going on in that picture?
- DanBC 11y agoResearch animals have "ports" inserted so researchers can see various stages of digestion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannulated_cow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannulated_cow This allows them to make sure things like "cow magnets" aren't going to be harmful
- maxerickson 11y agoHere's the article I got it from: https://www.animalsciencepublications.org/publications/jas/pdfs/76/1/299 https://www.animalsciencepublications.org/publications/jas/p... In the third picture, the rumen has become pressurized from bloat, a condition they get when something stops them from belching (often the wrong sort of microbial activity in their rumen).