Was It Designed?

The Milk Bypass

If you ever watched a sheep, a goat, or a cow giveing birth,
you have probably marveled at how quickely the newborn gets to it's feet and finds its way to the udder for milk.
All mammals feed their young on milk.
But in the case of young ruminants, such as lambs, kids, and calves, there is another, unseen marvel.

Consider: Cows have a four-chambered stomach for the mulitiple processes needed to digest milk and forage.
But newborns feed only on milk, which does not need all thoses processes for digestion.
So when the newborn suckles, a special bypass tunnel opens to allow the milk to go directly to the last chamber.

If milk were to find it's way into the first chamber, called the rumen,the calf would suffer because the rumen
is where hard- to -digest food is broken down by bacterial fermentation.
Fermenting milk produces gas that newborns cannot eliminate.

However , when young ruminants drink milk, whether from a nipple or a bucket, a reflex action snaps shut the entryway to the rumen.

Remarkably, something different happens when a newborn drinks water.
It needs plenty of water in it's rumen so that bacteria and microbes there can multiply, ready for when the youngster begins to live on forage.
Although milk goes directly to the stomach's final chamber, plain water enters the rumen.
The calf's amazing bypass is for milk only!

What do you think?
Did the milk bypass come about by chance?
Or is it the work of an intelligent Creator?