Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Spider Magazine Stories, Games, Activites and Puzzles for Children and Kids

    Journey to the Center of the Rumen

    Oct 01, 2022 2 minutes
    by Sarah Mullen Gilbert

    IMAGINE YOUR FAVORITE food. It smells wonderful. You take a bite, chew, and swallow. In your stomach, digestive juices break down the food. Nutrients are released that give you energy.

    That favorite food you pictured was probably not grass, and for good reason; humans don’t eat grass because the digestive juices in our stomachs can’t breakhave stomachs with four different compartments to digest tough plant fibers. To ruminants, like cows, deer, bison, gazelles, and giraffes, a grassy field is an all-you-can-eat buffet. The key to grass-gobbling success is the, the first of their four stomach compartments.

    You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

    More from Spider Magazine Stories, Games, Activites and Puzzles for Children and Kids

    Spider Magazine Stories, Games, Activites and Puzzles for Children and Kids2 min read
    How to Grow a Three Sisters Garden
    THREE SISTERS? WHO are they, you ask? You may know them as corn, beans, and squash. These plants produce vegetables eaten during the summer and fall, as well as seeds dried and kept for cooking and eating during the winter. Some Indigenous people cal
    Spider Magazine Stories, Games, Activites and Puzzles for Children and Kids1 min read
    Broccoli
    I took my broccoli for a walk,So we could have a little talk.He told me all about his bike,His dog, his friends, the games he likes. I learned he is a lot like me,And so, I know, you surely see, I could not EAT my broccoli. ■
    Spider Magazine Stories, Games, Activites and Puzzles for Children and Kids3 min read
    Planet Pumpkin
    SOMETIMES, I HAVE dirt under my fingernails. Mom says that’s OK, as long as I scrub hard before dinner. She understands because she’s a gardener like me—except she says little vegetables taste best. I might be small, but I like veggies BIG. Mom grows

    Related Books & Audiobooks