Three species of sucking lice can be found on cattle in Missouri. The longnosed cattle louse is generally a pest of young cattle and is about 1/10 inch long. The shortnosed cattle louse is about 1/16 inch long and is more often a pest of older cattle. The little blue louse is about 1/16 inch long.
A common length of the esophagus of a giraffe is about 40 inches. That compares to about 8 to 10 inches in a human being.
The esophagus is about 10 inches (25 centimeters) long and doesn't instantly move food from point A to point B â there are muscles in the esophagus that repeatedly contract, kind of squishing the food down to the stomach. The small intestine accounts for 20 feet (6 meters) of this tubing. 2  Food can stay in the stomach for a few hours to a few days, depending on what was eaten, but most food leaves the stomach within four or five hours.