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cattle; bison; sheep; goats; antelopes; deer; chevrotains; giraffes; camels
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| ruminant |
any of various cud-chewing hoofed mammals having a stomach divided into four (occasionally three) compartments related to or characteristic of animals of the suborder Ruminantia or any other animal that chews a cud; "ruminant mammals"
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| ruminant |
Animals having four stomach compartments - rumen, reticulum, omasum and abomasums - through which food passes in digestion. These animals chew their cud or regurgitate partially digested food for further breakdown in the mouth. Ruminant animals include cattle, sheep, goats, deer and camels.
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| ruminant |
An animal that chews cud. Ruminant animals include cattle, goats, sheep, and deer.
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| ruminant |
an herbivore which uses gastric, as opposed to intestinal, fermentation to digest cellulose. See Artiodactyla for figure and further explanation.
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