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Vet Med (Praha)
March 2023
Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
This study aimed to observe the lingual morphology of the domesticated Asian small-clawed otter, (), from Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Six domesticated adults were obtained from a local otter breeder in Yogyakarta, with no regard to sex. The animals were acclimated to the laboratory for one day, following this, the animals underwent macroscopy identification and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and light microscopy (LM) analysis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe microscopically examined the dorsal lingual surface of an adult Asian golden cat (Catopuma temminckii). The papillae on the margin of the lingual apex were horny-shaped and fungiform. The filiform papillae on the anterior part of the lingual body were large and cylindrical; the connective tissue core of each of these comprised a large conical papilla.
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February 2016
Department of Histology and Embryology, Poznan University of Life Sciences, Wojska Polskiego 71 C, 60-625 Poznań, Poland.
The domestic duck, as a representative of birds living in the water, is considered as a specialist filter-feeder. Behavioral observations of foraging revealed that these birds also use a terrestrial feeding mechanism such as grazing and pecking. This study examined the entirety of the lingual mucosa in relation to the structural adaptations required for this range of feeding activities.
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June 2017
Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Damietta University, Damietta, Egypt.
The aim of this investigation was to describe the morphological characters of the tongue of two predatory birds with similar feeding preferences, i.e. the common kestrel and Hume's tawny owl.
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