Cow - hand puppet for babies by Sterntaler
Sterntaler baby hand puppet cow, black-and-white patched fur with a beige muzzle and a checked bandana
Where does milk come from? The question is on the curriculum at many nurseries, and a figure answers it better than a picture book on its own. The cow hand puppet by Sterntaler has black and white patches and a checked neckerchief. It can moo, turn around and explain what goes on out in the pasture.
Domestic cattle (Bos taurus) are descended from the Eurasian aurochs and were first kept for meat, later for milk and draught power. How big cattle grow depends very much on the breed: a bull of the Italian Chianina breed can stand up to 1.8 metres at the shoulder. Cattle are ruminants, with a stomach divided into four compartments – rumen, reticulum, omasum and abomasum. Feed is swallowed unchewed into the rumen, brought back up a little at a time and then chewed at leisure as cud. Under good husbandry, high-yielding cows give well over 10,000 litres of milk a year.
Did you know that a cow spends several hours a day just chewing the cud? In all she produces more than a hundred litres of saliva a day, which buffers the acids from fermentation in the rumen. There, micro-organisms break down plant fibre that a human stomach could do nothing with – that detour is how grass becomes milk.
Sterntaler GmbH
Werkstrasse 6-8
65599 Dornburg-Dorndorf
Germany
Email: service@sterntaler.com
| Typ: | hand puppet |
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| Playability: | arms, head |
| Height approx.: | 30 cm |
| Care Instructions: | Care and Cleaning Guide |