The word "ruminants" is correct and usable in written English.
It is a type of animal with a unique digestive system that chews its cud, such as cows, goats, and sheep. For example, "Ruminants such as cows and goats are herbivores that have stomachs with four chambers."
The esophagus opens into the rumen, not into the area between rumen and reticulum; these and other differences suggest that camels evolved the ruminating habit independently of the true ruminants.
On September 22nd, a cow in Suffolk was said to have contracted Britain's first-ever case of bluetongue disease, a virus carried by midges that also affects sheep and other ruminants.
Nevertheless, the pathways they found leave humans looking more like ruminants: animals such as goats and sheep that use bacteria to break down otherwise indigestible matter in the plants they eat.The broader conclusion Dr Gill draws is that people are superorganisms whose metabolism represents an amalgamation of human and microbial attributes.
(Pace this blog's patron who would doubtless object to using the term "gaggle" to refer to hollow-horned gregarious ruminants, the alliteration proved irresistible).This time they calculated the proportion of all geo-tagged internet content, ie, that which is linked to Google Map placemarks, mentioning the word "football" in the 32 countries currently competing in the World Cup.
This, however, will be banned from being fed to ruminants: cattle, sheep and goats.
And just a few days later, bluetongue, a disease of ruminants that is spread by midges, made its first British appearance.The latest blow came just as government vets could have hoped to draw breath and start making long-term battle plans.
Yet America's meat industry still plainly has to pay more attention to what it feeds its animals and how it kills them.On the feeding side, giving cattle ruminant-derived products such as bone meal was banned in 1997, but blood and gelatin managed somehow to get exempted.
In addition to companionship, this ruminant provides lovely cheese for much of the year and also keeps a lawn well trimmed.
The survey team that made the discovery, a joint effort by the Fund and Vietnam's forestry ministry, realised they unearthed a rare ruminant when they saw skulls in hunters' homes with unusually long, straight horns.
These organisms are ultimately digested in the abomasum and small intestine, thus providing the ruminant with protein.
In ruminant artiodactyls, such as antelopes, deer, and cattle, the stomach has up to four chambers, each with a particular function in the processing of vegetable material.
