Editing Chewing (section)

==In other animals==
Chewing is largely an adaptation for [[mammal]]ian [[herbivory]]. [[Carnivore]]s generally chew very little or swallow their food whole or in chunks.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Hiiemae|first1=K.M.|last2=Crompton|first2=A.W.|title=Mastication, Food Transport, and Swallowing|journal=Functional Vertebrate Morphology|date=1985|doi=10.4159/harvard.9780674184404.c14|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/275344896}}</ref> This act of gulping food (or medicine pills) without chewing has inspired the English [[idiom]] "wolfing it down".<ref>{{cite web |title=Wiktionary |url=https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wolf_down}}</ref>

Other animals such as cows chew their food for long periods to allow for proper digestion in a process known as rumination. Rumination in cows has been shown by researchers to intensify during the night. They concluded that cows chewed more intently in the night time compared to the morning.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Zebeli|first1=Q.|last2=Tafaj|first2=M.|last3=Weber|first3=I.|last4=Dijkstra|first4=J.|last5=Steingass|first5=H.|last6=Drochner|first6=W.|date=April 2007|title=Effects of Varying Dietary Forage Particle Size in Two Concentrate Levels on Chewing Activity, Ruminal Mat Characteristics, and Passage in Dairy Cows|journal=Journal of Dairy Science|language=en|volume=90|issue=4|pages=1929–1942|doi=10.3168/jds.2006-354|pmid=17369233|doi-access=free}}</ref>

[[Ornithopoda|Ornithopods]], a group of [[dinosaur]]s including the [[Hadrosaurid]]s ("duck-bills"), developed teeth analogous to mammalian [[Molar (tooth)|molars]] and [[incisor]]s during the [[Cretaceous]] period; this advanced, cow-like dentition allowed the creatures to obtain more nutrients from the tough plant life. This may have given them the advantage needed to compete with the formidable [[Sauropoda|sauropods]], who depended on their massive gastrointestinal tracts to digest food without grinding it.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Sanders|first1=P. Martin|last2=Clauss|first2=Marcus|title=Sauropod Gigantism|journal=Science|date=10 October 2008|volume=322|issue=5899|pages=200–201|doi=10.1126/science.1160904|pmid=18845734|s2cid=206514245}}</ref>