Following treatment, many cows will eructate, defaecate and get to their feet within 15 minutes.

For example, a "tympanic reindeer" (paljehtunut, ilmavatsainen, lankkumaha)--a sick reindeer that cannot eructate because of a foamy rumen (Antti Oksanen, pers.

For example, chapter 4, "Living Together," includes a section called "A Belching Cow." Here the reader learns the term eructate; that "a twenty-two gallon cow's rumen would be home to about a quadrillion microbes, about 200,000 times as many microbes as there are humans on Earth"; that the microorganisms produced in the rumen are "the ruminant's major source of protein"; that all five major types of microbes are present in the rumen; that dry dog food is treated so it has an odor similar to that of a rumen, but diluted in strength; and that certain Eskimo tribes that eat reindeer get sufficient vitamins by eating not just the meat, but also the contents of the reindeer rumens.