Sentence examples for ruminants have from inspiring English sources
In the same way ruminants have not evolved to eat grain, humans may not be well adapted to eating grain-fed animals.
However, if the world changed its diet and went completely vegan, emissions would drop by 7.8 gigatonnes (though that ignores the positive impact that well managed ruminants have on the landscape and their ability to eat waste from agriculture).
Female pigs have many teats, but ruminants have only two to four (although domestic cattle occasionally have as many as six).
The legs of most camels and ruminants have lengthened, especially in the lower parts; the number of toes, or digits, in the feet is reduced from the original mammalian five, and ruminants walk on the tips of their toes.
Ruminants have low efficiency of nitrogen utilisation; unutilised nitrogen is being excreted in the faeces and urine.
Ruminants have the ability to digest large amounts of plant polysaccharides by virtue of the composite microflora present in the rumen.
As the program annotator Jonathan Cross wittily put it, Mr. Birtwistle is something of a specialist in articulate ruminants, having included a chorus of singing sheep in his opera "Yan Tan Tethera".
The interaction of humans with domesticated ruminants has strongly influenced the cultural evolution of societies.
Bluetongue virus (BTV) infection is an emerging hazard in small ruminants having socio-economic impacts on animals and associated people.
Mycobacterium paratuberculosis, an acid-fast bacillus that causes enteritis in ruminants, has been suggested as an etiological agent of Crohn's disease in humans.
The behaviour of perfluoroalkyl acids (PFAAs) in tissues of ruminants has been shown to differ from that of monogastrics (J Agric Food Chem 61(12013903–2912 doi:10.1021/Jf304680j, 2013; J Agric Food Chem 62(20146861–6870, 2014).
