. The Encyclopædia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information. Fig. 7.—Intestinal Tract of Tapir. 5,cut end of duodenum; J?, cut end ofrectum; C, caecum; CL, Fig. 8.—Intestinal Tract of Giraffe. 5, cut end of duodenum;/?, cut end of rectum; C, caecum; , post-caecal loop; ,spiral loop; SF, third loop of hind-gut. one-eighth to one-thirtieth of the whole length of the gut. Acertain number of primitive birds, however, have retained arelatively long condition of the hind-gut (fig. 4), the greatestrelative length occurring in struthious birds, and
. The Encyclopædia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information. Fig. 7.—Intestinal Tract of Tapir. 5,cut end of duodenum; J?, cut end ofrectum; C, caecum; CL, Fig. 8.—Intestinal Tract of Giraffe. 5, cut end of duodenum;/?, cut end of rectum; C, caecum; , post-caecal loop; ,spiral loop; SF, third loop of hind-gut. one-eighth to one-thirtieth of the whole length of the gut. Acertain number of primitive birds, however, have retained arelatively long condition of the hind-gut (fig. 4), the greatestrelative length occurring in struthious birds, and particularlyin the ostrich, where the hind-gut exceeds in length the duodenumand Meckels tract together. Mammals may be contrasted withbirds as a group in which the hind-gut is always relatively long,sometimes extremely long, and in which, moreover, there is astrong tendency to differentiation of the hind-gut into regions 670 ALIMONY
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