Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/601/en

tongue seizes a tuft of grass, herbs, or hay, draws it into the mouth, and, in the case of fresh green growth, clips it off by pressing the lower jaw against the edge of the toothless pad of the upper jaw. Between times the tongue slides with pleasure across the muzzle and tastes the glandular secretions of the same. The cow is presumably carrying out thereby a kind of first quality-analysis of the fodder taken in, probably also with regard to the kind and quantity of salivation. In the muzzle, the upper lip has merged with the nasal cavities. Thereby fodder-uptake and breathing are closely bound together, and likewise the senses of touch, taste, and smell.