11 September 2011

Cheek pouches of the macaque

"They use the pouches while foraging in the same way that hamsters do."

For reasons I can't quite comprehend, this illustration comes from a medical textbook entitled "The Anatomy of the Human Peritoneum and Abdominal Cavity, Considered from the Standpoint of Development and Comparative Anatomy," by George S. Huntington, 1903.

Via Biomedical Ephemera.

2 comments:

  1. UnknownSeptember 12, 2011 at 6:47 AM

    Tetrapod Zoology did a whole series on pouches and similar structures in mammals, starting with primates.

    And yes, that is a weird place for it, but comparitive anatomy gets a bit stretchy sometimes.

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  2. AnonymousSeptember 12, 2011 at 5:47 PM

    was just gonna say....you need something to compare to, if you're gonna do comparative anatomy!

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