rumen

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Because cows can’t readily digest the grass they eat, they ferment it first in multiple stomach compartments, or rumen, a process that releases huge amounts of gas.

From Seattle Times

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

Steffan says any stressor that throws the external rumen out of whack could be “an indirect, but no less lethal” way of killing bees.

From Scientific American

Cows have a rumen — the first stop in their digestive tract — which produces prodigious amounts of methane.

From Nature

Cows and other ruminants such as goats and sheep have a special stomach called a rumen that houses millions of microbes.

From Science Magazine