- published: 14 Jan 2012
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Cud is a portion of food that returns from a ruminant's stomach in the mouth to be chewed for the second time. More accurately, it is a bolus of semi-degraded food regurgitated from the reticulorumen of a ruminant. Cud is produced during the physical digestive process of rumination. The idiomatic expression chewing one's cud means meditating or pondering; similar expressions such as "he chewed that over for a bit", or "chew on that!" likely have the same derivation.
The alimentary canal of ruminants, such as cattle, goats, sheep, alpacas and antelope, is unable to produce the enzymes required to break down the cellulose and hemicellulose of plant matter. Accordingly, these animals have developed a symbiotic relationship with a wide range of microbes, which largely reside in the reticulorumen, and which are able to synthesize the requisite enzymes. The reticulorumen thus hosts a microbial fermentation which yields products (mainly volatile fatty acids and microbial protein), which the ruminant is able to digest and absorb. This allows digestion of less edible plants.
Love In A Hollow Tree
Aha! Top song this, good live too. From Leggy Mambo. She's the chief toast
In town,
When the others are gone she's still around,
Butter wouldn't melt in her mouth,
And cheese would probably choke her,
Love in a hollow tree,
If he'd be hanged he'll come hopping
If she'd be drowned she'll come dropping
Love in a hollow tree.
I'm so full of love, I'm fit to burst,
You make me drunk enough,
But I still have a thirst,
My goodness, what's going out?
Won't you stop give me a clue to what it's all about?
Love in a hollow tree,
She's so sweet, toasted almonds,