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== Uses of animal guts ==
Intestines from animals other than humans are used in a number of ways. From each species of [[livestock]] that is a source of [[milk]], a corresponding [[rennet]] is obtained from the intestines of milk-fed {{linktext|calves}}. [[Pig]] and [[calf (animal)|calf]] intestines are eaten, and pig intestines are used as [[sausage]] casings. Calf intestines supply [[calf-intestinal alkaline phosphatase]] (CIP), and are used to make [[goldbeater's skin]].
Other uses are:
* The use of animal gut [[Strings (music)|strings]] by musicians can be traced back to the [[third dynasty of Egypt]]. In the recent past, strings were made out of [[domestic sheep|lamb]] gut. With the advent of the modern era, musicians have tended to use strings made of [[silk]], or synthetic materials such as [[nylon]] or [[steel]]. Some instrumentalists, however, still use gut strings in order to evoke the older tone quality. Although such strings were commonly referred to as "[[catgut]]" strings, [[cat]]s were never used as a source for gut strings.
* Sheep gut was the original source for natural gut string used in [[racquet]]s, such as for [[tennis]]. Today, synthetic strings are much more common, but the best gut strings are now made out of [[cow]] gut.
* Gut cord has also been used to produce strings for the snares that provide a [[snare drum]]'s characteristic buzzing timbre. While the modern snare drum almost always uses metal wire rather than gut cord, the [[North Africa]]n [[bendir]] frame drum still uses gut for this purpose.
* "Natural" [[sausage]] hulls, or [[Casing (sausage)|casings]], are made of animal gut, especially hog, beef, and lamb.
* The wrapping of [[kokoretsi]], [[gardoubakia]], and [[torcinello]] is made of lamb (or goat) gut.
* [[Haggis]] is traditionally boiled in, and served in, a sheep stomach.
* [[Chitterlings]], a kind of food, consist of thoroughly washed [[pig]]'s gut.
* Animal gut was used to make the cord lines in [[longcase clock]]s and for [[fusee (horology)|fusee]] movements in [[bracket clock]]s, but may be replaced by metal wire.
* The oldest known [[condom]]s, from 1640 AD, were made from animal intestine.

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