Question

Observe a cow/buffalo while eating its food. Write your observations in your notebook by following the given questions.

i) How does a cow find its food?

ii) Note the parts of the body involved in it?

iii) What mouthparts of the cow are involved in eating its food?

iv) Do cows have teeth? Do they have teeth on both jaws?

v) In what way can you justify it is herbivore?

vi) You may have observed cows and buffaloes sitting under the trees and moving their jaws. Do you know why they do that?

Answer 1

i) Cow finds its food by using the sense of smell.

ii) Mouth and tongue are involved to take the food in.

iii)

• The cow uses its tongue to grasp a clump of grass. 
• Teeth help to shred the grass into small pieces.

iv) Yes. Cows have teeth on both jaws. But don’t have top front teeth.

v)  

• Cow depends only on plant and plant products for food. 
• They eat different parts of plants like green/dry grass, leaves, branches arid fruits. 
• So that, we can say cow is herbivore.

vi)

• Cow and buffalo chew food very quickly, swallow and store it in a part of their stomach. 
• After some time, they back the food material from the stomach to the mouth and chew it again leisurely.