ruminant

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And under the new Ruminant Genetics Programme, it is also for environmental reasons.

From BBC • Oct. 26, 2023

Ruminant livestock need grass, which often means farmers chop down the trees or shrubs previously there, making pasture inhospitable for native species.

From Salon • Jul. 17, 2023

Figure 25.8 Ruminant animals, such as goats and cows, have four stomachs.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

Ruminant livestock - cattle, sheep, bison, goats, deer and camels - have a stomach compartment called the rumen in which microbes produce methane as a byproduct of digesting fibrous plant material.

From Reuters • Sep. 18, 2020

No example of the great Ruminant group of the Ungulate Quadrupeds has as yet been detected in deposits of Eocene age.

From The Ancient Life History of the Earth A Comprehensive Outline of the Principles and Leading Facts of Palæontological Science by Nicholson, Henry Alleyne