Bell (cloven-hoofed)

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Domestic goat with bell

As bells or curls (appendices colli) are called the skin protuberances that are grown in pairs on the neck of some goats and rarely on the head. Bells can also occur in sheep and pigs . Your training is not limited to any particular type. The bell is a protrusion of the skin that contains connective tissue, cartilage, muscles, nerves and blood vessels inside. Apart from the normal skin glands, no other glands are formed. A biological function of the bells is not known.

literature

  • Horst Erich König, Hans-Georg Liebich (Ed.): Anatomy of domestic mammals: textbook and color atlas for study and practice . Schartauer, 2009, ISBN 978-3-7945-2650-5 , p. 606; here online at books.google, accessed on June 26, 2012.
  • Hans Geyer: Specific skin glands . In: Franz-Viktor Salomon and others (ed.): Anatomy for veterinary medicine . Enke, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8304-1007-7 , p. 643.