Crop (anatomy) Crop (anatomy) A crop (sometimes also called a croup or a craw, or ingluvies) is a thin-walled expanded portion of the alimentary tract used for the storage of food prior to digestion. This anatomical structure is found in a wide variety of animals. It has been found in birds, and in invertebrate animals including gastropods (snails and slugs), earthworms, leeches, and insects. Cropping is used by bees to temporarily store nectar of flowers. When bees "suck" nectar, it is stored in their crops. In a bird's digestive system, the crop is an expanded, muscular pouch near the gullet or throat.
Names for the human species "animal capable of rationality", a term used in medieval scholasticism (with reference to Aristotle), and also used by e.g. Carl von Linné 1760, Immanuel Kant 1798. Based on the same pattern is "animal sociale" or "social animal" "animal laborans" "laboring animal" (Hannah Arendt 1958) and "animal symbolicum" "symbolizing animal" (Ernst Cassirer 1944). The binomial name "Homo sapiens" was coined by Carl Linnaeus (1758). Names for other human species were introduced beginning in the second half of the 19th century ("Homo neanderthalensis" 1864, "Homo erectus" 1892). There is no consensus on the taxonomic delineation between human species, human subspecies and the