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chocolatecaz | 21:06 Sat 07th Aug 2004 | Animals & Nature
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why does a cow have four stomachs?
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google query on cow stomach has this as the first reference http://www.benjerry.com/our_company/research_library/product ion/cow.html
Basically, cellulose (the constituent of plant cell walls) is hard to digest (humans don't, it goes "straight through" us): as cows eat a lot of grass they have evolved (or been handed a God-given) a system for breaking it down. It's just quite complex!

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