Shortly (10-15 min after pilocarpine administration), mastication, clonic movements of the head and vibrissae are the main behavioral manifestations.
This rejection was immediate; lizards dropped the larvae without further mastication and beak-wiped.
Salivary gland secretion is reduced; mastication to prepare food is increased, as is the time required to prepare the bolus.
However, some experience periods of inflammation and breakdown of t he oral lesions, r esulting in painful mastication and decreased food intake.
She pursues this analogy through an analysis of notions of mastication and potboiling, with all their implications of recycling, reiterating, and reformulating.
Consequently, the posterior teeth, primarily involved in mastication, were not impaired by dental filing.
However, this may be simply due to mastication attrition.
If repetitive movements involved in mastication are so important, wouldn't one expect bovids to have speech?
