From:
Sukie Crandall
Date: 2009-06-17 15:44:11 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] a possible reason that dehydrated ferrets don't eat well
To: fhl <ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com>
Certainly, reduced sense of smell during dehydration is an additional
possibility as is just feeling yucky (technical term ;-) ).
> Okajimas Folia Anat Jpn. 2009 May;86(1):17-24.Links
> Morphological study of the lingual papillae in the ferret (Mustela
> putorius furo).
> Takemura A, Uemura M, Toda I, Fang G, Hikida M, Suwa F.
> Department of Anatomy, Osaka Dental University, 8-1 Kuzuhahanazono-
> cho, Hirakata city, Osaka, 573-1121 Japan. takemura@cc.osaka-dent.ac.jp
>
> We used four ferrets (Mustela putorius furo) and observed these
> animals dorsal tongue surface morphology via scanning electron
> microscope and light microscope. In this investigation, we focused
> on the food habits and discussed the morphology of the lingual
> papillae from the viewpoint of comparative anatomy. The ferret has
> conically-shaped filiform papillae in the posterior, middle and
> anterior region of the tongue body, and circular-distributed
> filiform papillae in the lingual apex region. The ferret has
> fungiform papillae with hemispheric shaped summits in the posterior
> and middle region with square-shaped summits in the anterior and the
> lingual apex region. The ferret has V-shaped vallate papillae with
> eight papillae in two lines or 12 papillae in three lines on the
> tongue root. No foliate papillae were observed on the dorsal tongue
> surface of the ferret. The ferret belongs to the carnivore family
> but has a highly developed vallate papillae which are taste bud
> papillae and many taste glands. Thus we conclude that the ferrets
> need a large amount of saliva to swallow food because it
> demonstrates a large number of taste glands.
>
> PMID: 19522302
>
Sukie (not a vet)
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