Cheek pouches are pockets on both sides of the head of some mammals between the jaw and the cheek. They can be found on mammals including the platypus...

vestibule or buccal pouch or buccal cavity and forms part of the mouth. In other animals the cheeks may also be referred to as "jowls". Cheeks are fleshy in...

pouched rat (Cricetomys gambianus), also commonly known as the African giant pouched rat, is a species of nocturnal pouched rat of the giant pouched rat...

species Pouched rat, African rodent characterized by large cheek pouches All pages with titles beginning with Pouch All pages with titles containing Pouch Bursar...

upper lip and gum, or between the gum and cheek, and used for around 30 minutes. Consumption of nicotine pouches seem to result in levels of nicotine in...

are stout-bodied with distinguishing features that include elongated cheek pouches extending to their shoulders, which they use to carry food back to their...

muscles may allow them to move the jaw further sideways when chewing. The cheek pouch is a specific morphological feature used for storing food and is evident...

painting the cheek-pouch mucosa with aqueous extracts or implantation of a wax pellet containing powdered paan with tobacco into the cheek pouch; carcinomas...

having large cheek pouches and a distinctive molar morphology. The molars are very similar to the type seen in the subfamily Murinae, but pouched rats probably...

pouched rats are actually better climbers than their better known Gambian pouched rat cousins. These pouched rats are named for having cheek pouches much...

vegetable and plant matter, which it collects in large, fur-lined, external cheek pouches. Surplus food is hoarded in an extensive system of tunnels. The...

unlike some other species which make multiple small caches of food. Cheek pouches allow chipmunks to carry food items to their burrows for either storage...

expandable cheek pouches, which extend from its cheeks to its shoulders. In the wild, hamsters are larder hoarders; they use their cheek pouches to transport...

characteristic features are their large cheek pouches, from which the word "pocket" in their name derives. These pouches are fur-lined, can be turned inside...

radiation of African and Malagasy muroids. The name "pouched rat" refers to their large cheek pouches. The species are: Females have been said to be capable...

and macaques. This subfamily shares several common traits such as cheek pouches, low and rounded molar cusps, and simple stomachs; all adaptations to...

mushrooms to insects, spiders, and smaller vertebrates. All species possess cheek pouches in which they can store food. Gestation lasts around six to seven months...

(March 2000). "Acid/pepsin promotion of carcinogenesis in the hamster cheek pouch". Archives of Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Surgery. 126 (3): 405–9. doi:10...

different location in its cheek pouches. However, recorded observations of chipmunks carrying soil in their cheek pouches are extremely limited. John...

6 kg (2.6 to 3.5 lb). The pouches for which these rats are named consist of oversized cheek-pouches. These oversized cheek pouches are often used to transport...

11 days of age, the cheek pouches are fully grown and can carry objects up to the size of a sunflower seed. When the cheek pouches become full, they extend...

on seeds and other plant parts, which they carry in their fur-lined cheek pouches to their burrows. There are about 26 members of the subfamily Perognathinae...

on seeds and other plant parts, which they carry in their fur-lined cheek pouches to their burrows. Although they are very different in physical appearance...

heads. Another notable feature of kangaroo rats is their fur-lined cheek pouches, which are used for storing food. The coloration of kangaroo rats varies...

most rodents, are prone to tumours. They can also receive injury in the cheek pouch by sharp objects damaging the fragile inner lining. Other health problems...

Heteromyidae. Each species within this family has fur-lined food storage pouches. The cheek pouch is utilized as a portable cache for food while foraging. Kangaroo...

Extract on the Internal Diameter of Arterioles and Venules of the Hamster Cheek Pouch Microcirculation". Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology. 22 (2): 221–224...

to be hamsters based on the shape of their molars, but they lack the cheek pouches, flank glands and short tails of the true hamsters. The closest relatives...

or Guinea baboon. The olive baboon, like most cercopithecines, has a cheek pouch with which to store food. The species inhabits a strip of 25 equatorial...

gophers, so named in reference to their externally located, fur-lined cheek pouches. They are burrowing animals, found in grasslands and agricultural land...