Sentence examples for these ruminants from inspiring English sources

Inevitably they'll bring up mad-cow disease (and the accompanying revelation that industrial agriculture has transformed these ruminants into carnivores -- indeed, into cannibals).

These milking cows never touch a blade of grass, instead spending their days standing around a dry-lot "loafing area" munching organic grain — grain that takes a toll on both the animals' health (these ruminants evolved to eat grass, after all) and the nutritional value of their milk.

Upper incisors and canines are absent in these ruminants, and the cheek teeth are folded and sharp.

The situation in Spain, with well-distributed wild ruminant species and the presence of BTV vectors and BTV-4, led us to study the status of these ruminants in the epidemiology of BTV.

We found that all of the goat and sheep V1R genes have orthologs in their cross-species counterparts among these three ruminant species and that the sequence identity of V1R orthologous pairs among these ruminants is much higher than that of mouse-rat V1R orthologous pairs.

Cattle are the primary reservoirs for E. coli O157 and hence, food products derived from these ruminants contaminated with E. coli O157-containing manure are the major sources of infection [ 18- 20], resulting in large scale recalls of contaminated meat and produce.

The main vector of these ruminant-infecting Bartonella spp. has not been identified.

These ruminant species are heterogeneous and not nearly as closely related as the hamsters studied here.

Considering the serological relationship between these ruminant alphaherpesviruses, several surveys have studied the occurrence of BoHV-1 related virus infection in wild and domestic ruminant species.

In this Vendée area, the diet composition of these ruminant animals in the wild was unknown until it had been studied by Duncan's group [ 9- 11].

Because of their close relationship to CSFV, it was of particular interest to determine the ability of these ruminant pestiviruses to infect pigs and induce clinical disease.