H.-G. Liebich 92. In contrast to humans cattle typically represents a nidifugous animal. The animal's skeleton has to be functionally completed at birth without static or dynamic loading until birth. It was our aim to study the remodeling of bone architecture because of adaptation to changed staticdynamic conditions. In newbom animals the third phalanx evidently shows an accidentally arranged, equally distributed cancellous bone in the sagittal section.
Compact bone is relatively thin.
The only greater space is a bony channel giving way to the arcus terminalis. Just a few weeks after birth the remodeling of bone is taking place. Thus in the adult animal a medullary cavity with the arcus terminalis passing through it can be seen in the sagittal plane. It is filled with yellow bone marrow. The cancellous bone surrounding the central cavity shows evidently a changed arragement.