Fruit and bread, a scientific diet . Fig. 14.—Stomach op a Lion (Carnivorous). a. iEsophagus. b. Beginning of small intestines. The position and form of the stomach arealso of significance. In the Carnivora it is only INTERNAL STRUCTURE. 35 a small roundish sack, exceedingly simple instructure, while in the vegetable feeders it is ob-long, lies transversely across the abdomen, andis more or less complicated with ring-like con-volutions, according to the nature of the Fig. 15.—Stomach of a Siieep (Herbivorous). a. ./Esophagus. b. First stomach. c. Second stomach. d. Third stomach. e. Fou
Fruit and bread, a scientific diet . Fig. 14.—Stomach op a Lion (Carnivorous). a. iEsophagus. b. Beginning of small intestines. The position and form of the stomach arealso of significance. In the Carnivora it is only INTERNAL STRUCTURE. 35 a small roundish sack, exceedingly simple instructure, while in the vegetable feeders it is ob-long, lies transversely across the abdomen, andis more or less complicated with ring-like con-volutions, according to the nature of the Fig. 15.—Stomach of a Siieep (Herbivorous). a. ./Esophagus. b. First stomach. c. Second stomach. d. Third stomach. e. Fourth stomach. /. Passage into small intestines. This appears conspicuously in the Primates,which include man, in the Rodentia, Edentata,Marsupials, and, above all, in the the latter it presents a series of from fourto seven wide adjoining and communicatingsacks. The intestine of the lion is three times, andthat of man and the orang nearly twelve times, 36 INTERNAL STRUCTURE. the length of the trunk. In the sheep it istwenty-five times this length, since the grassesupon which it feeds require much more time a
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