How To Use Ruminant In A Sentence

Experts agree that hippos belong to the mammalian order Artiodactyla, a group of even-toed, hoofed creatures whose extant representatives include camels, pigs and ruminants such as cows.
Forage crops, pasture, and rangelands are important in feeding ruminant animals tied to the meat and dairy industries.
The U.S. imposed the ban on all Canadian ruminant products and by-products in May, following the discovery of a case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad cow disease, on a farm in Alberta.
Saliva secretion in ruminants is continuous but increases with eating and rumination.
By definition, foregut fermentors comprise animals with a pregastric fermentation chambers such as the rumen, reticulum, and omasum of ruminants and diverticula or fermentative sacs of other ruminant-like mammals.

The remaining toes not used for walking are either reduced, as in pigs and tapirs, or completely lost, as in rhinos and most ruminants.
Because cows are ruminants and ruminants have several stomachs.
Forests are more than trees, of course, and along with its timber Afghanistan is at risk of losing its wolves, snow leopards, bears, and foxes, as well as alpine ruminants like Marco Polo sheep and ibex.
The non-ruminant animals are monogastric (with single stomachs), such as pigs and poultry. Chapter 7
He was interested in improving digestive processes within the rumen, the first of the four stomachs of ruminant animals, where cellulose is broken down by bacteria.
_Osteology of the feet in Ruminantia_, Artiodactyla -- The following illustrations were inadvertently omitted from the text in the section on the _Artiodactyla_. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
The sabre-toothed lion has gone the way of all flesh; the deinotherium and the colossal ruminants of the Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science
The other new rule tightens restrictions on ruminant feed, eliminating mammal blood, poultry litter and table scraps from the list of items that can legally be fed to cattle and other ruminants.
If the evidence is sufficient to justify the argument that camels are herbivorous _because_ they are ruminants, it must also justify the major premise, _All ruminants are herbivorous_; for else the inference cannot really depend merely upon the fact of ruminating. Logic Deductive and Inductive
Bluetongue is a particularly nasty non-contagious, insect-borne viral disease of ruminants, from sheep to dromedaries. Times, Sunday Times
The rasorial type comprehends most of the animals which become domesticated and useful to man, as, first, the fowls which give a name to the type, the ungulata, and more particularly the ruminantia, among quadrupeds, and the dog among the ferae. Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
When a cow eats infected tissue -- it's called the ruminant feed that they used to get this from -- it can take as much as eight years for that cow to start showing symptoms. CNN Transcript Dec 23, 2003
Under the systems of older naturalists the thick-skinned animals were lumped together under the order UNGULATA, or _hoofed animals_, subdivided by Cuvier into _Pachydermata_, or thick-skinned non-ruminants, and _Ruminantia_, or ruminating animals; but neither the elephant nor the coney can be called hoofed animals, and in other respects they so entirely differ from the rest that recent systematists have separated them into three distinct orders -- _Proboscidea_, _Hyracoidea_ and _Ungulata_, which classification I here adopt. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
Accurate and precise estimates of forage energy content are required to formulate diets properly for lactating dairy cows and other ruminants.
Too bad she ain't got a few more millions," said Uncle Peter, ruminantly. The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation
To a small extent, this can also happen in the stomachs of ruminant animals, such as cows and sheep, but without the same detrimental effect as the man-made variety.
He gazed ruminantly away from the lagoon to the pool of Psyche, where the Tahitian women squatted on their shapely haunches and thumped their clothes. Mystic Isles of the South Seas.
The teeth of the ruminant are specialised, unlike those of a carnivorous animal.
Experts agree that hippos belong to the mammalian order Artiodactyla, a group of even-toed, hoofed creatures whose extant representatives include camels, pigs and ruminants such as cows.
Forage crops and native rangelands are vital to U.S. livestock interests, since they're the main feed staple of all ruminant animals tied to the meat and dairy industries.
In 1997 the Canadian Food Inspection Agency banned the feeding of recycled products from ruminant animals back to other ruminants, like cattle, sheep, goats, bison, elk or deer.
With regard to the second question, it is a matter of importance that although we have hitherto not discovered any Ruminants with this modification of the teeth, still less any cavicorn or sheath-horned More Science From an Easy Chair
For example, 30 percent of the dry matter intake of ruminant animals is to be provided from grazing (this is when an animal breaks off forage from a living plant whose roots are still attached to the soil, green chop transported to the animals is not pasture) or from forage that has been cut and is still laying in the pasture as “residual forage.” Archive 2010-03-01
Ruminants also lack incisors in the upper jaw, and most lack canines in the upper jaw as well.
Particularly suitable for corn, non-protein nitrogen for ruminant, feather powder, MBM . As well as bran for keeping-fresh, fish powder, cottonseed for detoxication.
A genus of ruminants. including the red deer and other allied species.
The various CLA are produced in the rumen of ruminant animals mainly by the bacteria Butyrivibrio fibrisolvens through reactions of isomerization and biohydrogenation. Conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) and breast milk | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.
The report notes that the key to preventing BSE is to ensure that meat and bone meal from ruminants is not be fed back to ruminants.
Unlike the others, the goat is a ruminant, and will eat almost anything given half a chance.
The grass beneath the trees was evenly cropped, and pelleted with droppings, so some ruminant herd loitered nearby, keeping the sward neat. Son of a Witch
Don't get your hopes up because you don't get to see much from your free low-level passage, just a few ruminants, some birds and a lot of homo sapiens wandering around gawping at animals you can't see.
Bezoar stones were found in the intestines of some ruminant animals, especially oriental goats, and like unicorn horn were thought to be an antidote to poison.
A ruminant is a mammal that digests plant-based food by initially softening it within the animal’s first stomach, known as the rumen, then regurgitating the semi-digested mass, now known as cud, and chewing it again. CSI: Miami – “Bad Seed” Review
In 2003, the United States exported approximately $7.5bn worth of beef, beef products, cattle and other ruminants and ruminant by-products.
And then on to ruminant, which verified my initial rumgumption about the cud-chewing, but included, also, a reference to the "ruminantia," which are "a division of even-toed, hoofed mammals" including some which do not chew the cud! VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIV No 3
Feedlot operators feed grain to ruminants because it makes the animals grow faster and fatter, resulting in highly marbled meat.
The remaining loci were derived in other ruminants: red deer, caribou, gazelle, and wapiti (Cervus elaphus canadensis).
The navicular and cuboid bones of the ankle are not fused, a primitive condition that separates tylopods from the third suborder the Ruminantia.
Sheep and goats are ruminants and are genomically similar to cows.
Taking this as axiom of the syllogism materially treated, we see that herbivorousness, being constantly related to ruminants, is constantly related to camels; mortality to man and, therefore, to Socrates; rusting to the immersion of iron in water generally and, therefore, to this piece of iron. Logic Deductive and Inductive
Because goats will consume a wider variety of plants than other commercial ruminants, they may be able to survive where cattle cannot.
Ruth repeated the word, not in the effect of a query, but ruminantly. The Ragged Edge
In a new research, scientists explore the use of a natural-occurring biopolymer known as chitosan as an effective alternative to growth-promoting antibiotics in the diet of ruminants. The Biotech Weblog
If you want to subsist solely on weeds like some sort of bipedal ruminant, that is your right - go for it. TED 2008: Crow vending machine maker Joshua Klein - Boing Boing
Dromedaries are tylopods; according to scientists, although camelids chew their food twice, they are closer to humans than ruminants such as cattle.
A flutey voice, like some birds I've listened to," returned the girl ruminantly, "but with something a bit odd and different in her speech that made us think her an American, and Hope even spoke of it; but just then the carriage came to take us to the wharf, and she forgot to answer. All Aboard A Story for Girls
Oddly enough, among the grass-eaters, for some reason which we do not understand, it appears to occur in a sort of inverse proportion to the stomach; those which have large, sacculate, pouched stomachs, like the cow, sheep, and the ruminants generally, having smaller _cæca_. Preventable Diseases
Although it has been widely assumed that ruminants, by virtue of rumen bacteria, do possess adequate phytase activity, there is evidence to the contrary.
So many fossil links have been disentombed that he has had to alter the whole classification, and has placed certain Pachyderms in the same sub-order with ruminants.
Camels are now no longer included in the suborder of Ruminantia, but in a separate suborder of Tylopoda, which also chew their food twice. Modern Science in the Bible
More advanced artiodactyls, the ruminants, have evolved complex stomachs with three or four chambers.
The most familiar sources of methane are bacteria that live in bogs, lakes and the stomachs of ruminants like cows.
Hear them little fellers!" said Stephen, ruminantly. A Christmas Accident and Other Stories
Mimosine is a toxic amino acid in leucaena foliage (2-6% dry matter) that causes hair loss and other damage in nonruminant animals. Chapter 28
Some non ruminants, however, are able to tolerate it, at least at low levels of intake, since it has been successfully used in Venezuela as a replacement for Medicago sativa (lucerne, alfalfa), as a yolk colourant in maize based diets for laying hens (Ford, 1987). Chapter 3
It does not belong to the scientific classification of the Ruminantia, such as cows, sheep, goats, deer, giraffes, and antelopes. Modern Science in the Bible
Mimosine, which is of concern in feeding leucaena foliage to nonruminant animals, is absent in calliandra. 5 Products and Applications
The Bible does not say that the rabbit belongs to the suborder of Ruminantia; that would have been a slip. Modern Science in the Bible
The feeding of ruminant meat and bone meal to other ruminants had been a common practice in many countries until British experts determined that as the cause of BSE infection in cattle.
The Goat The goat and sheep belong to the “ovicaprid” branch of the ruminant family, smaller animals that are especially at home in mountainous country. On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
Note that cattle are ruminants and can convert inedible grains such as grass into protein and that they do not require to be fed soy and other grains.
Skins of carnivora or the wool of ruminants must be procured at any price, and since there were plenty of musmons, it was agreed to consult on the means of forming a flock which might be brought up for the use of the colony. The Mysterious Island
The cow is a ruminant.
ruminants have remarkable powers of rumination
Forage produced from fields of bermudagrass serving as receivers of swine lagoon effluent is a potential feed source for ruminants.
My word of the day is "ruminant", in case anyone is wondering. HH Com 160
The cranium was met with at a depth of a metre and a half [five feet nearly], hidden under an osseous breccia, composed of the remains of small animals, and containing one rhinoceros tusk, with several teeth of horses and of ruminants. Essays
Mycobacterium paratuberculosis is the causative agent of Johne's disease, a chronic enteritis in ruminants and in other animals.
He was interested in improving digestive processes within the rumen, the first of the four stomachs of ruminant animals, where cellulose is broken down by bacteria.
Hector proves this was not a mistake and these are precisely the sort of people who buy into this ruminant evacutation. fostert Says: Matthew Yglesias » The Gaza Tunnels
To provide ruminant animal an excellent herding ground with hay or sports field.
The digestive system of the ruminantia is more complicated in structure than that of any other class of animals; and, owing to this complexity, and the consequent difficulty of investigating it, its nature and functions have been less perfectly understood. Delineations of the Ox Tribe The Natural History of Bulls, Bisons, and Buffaloes. Exhibiting all the Known Species and the More Remarkable Varieties of the Genus Bos.
Sunflower seedcake (SFS) is used as an affordable feed for ruminants, pigs, and chickens. 16: Oils
In the nonruminant, fibre acts largely as a diluent for other nutrients and to some extent non-ruminants can increase their intake of feed to compensate for such dilution, this being particularly marked in the rabbit. Chapter 5
It provides early spring forage not only for cattle and sheep, but for wild ruminants as well, including deer, bison, elk, and moose.
He has a fine forehead, and if one likes beards, his is certainly a handsome specimen," said Aunt Helen ruminantly, as we were driving home. A Romantic Young Lady
It provides early spring forage not only for cattle and sheep, but for wild ruminants as well, including deer, bison, elk, and moose.
Particularly suitable for corn, non-protein nitrogen for ruminant, feather powder, MBM . As well as bran for keeping-fresh, fish powder, cottonseed for detoxication.
Yes, a ruminant couldn't live on roughage without the bugs, because these digest the tough cellulose fibre in the plants the animals eat.
Groups of ruminant steers had settled down in the shade of old oaks.
Courant clasped his hands behind his head and gazed ruminantly before him. The Emigrant Trail
Cows, sheep, and deer are ruminants/ruminant animals.
A domesticated South American ruminant mammal(Lama glama) related to the camel, raised for its soft, fleecy wool and used as a beast of burden.
It takes 60 to 90 days for them to develop the four-chamber ruminant stomach that allows them to eat roughage and extract protein from it.
These two categories of toxins are the cause of a range of ailments - ergot alkaloids may lead to poor feathering and lesions forming on chickens, fescue foot in ruminants and shrunken udders in sows, while endotoxins are responsible for endotoxic shock and death. Laboratorytalk - laboratory industry news
The giraffe is the biggest ruminant and the tallest mammal in the world.
He was interested in improving digestive processes within the rumen, the first of the four stomachs of ruminant animals, where cellulose is broken down by bacteria.
Roughage is made up of bulky fibrous plant materials, fresh, dried or ensiled, which are mainly suitable for feeding ruminant animals. Chapter 7
Ban the use of poultry litter as a feed ingredient for ruminant animals.
Pastures are often the most economical way to provide forage for ruminant animals.
Both syphilis and Lyme disease are caused by these bacteria, and other species are important symbionts in the stomachs of cows and other ruminants.
(The omasum of ruminants is represented only by a rudimentary area.) 26 Mouse Deer
Other healthy green practices include eschewing trans fat, using fewer "ruminant" meats such as beef and lamb, reducing food waste (by serving smaller portions) and using biodegradables. All MayoClinic.com Topics
Beef cows, brood ewes, and most other ruminants do not require consistent quality forage, and longer grazing periods should suffice.
Someone has told them that ruminants eructate methane into the atmosphere, and that methane is a terrible greenhouse gas.
The stomach of mouse deer is three chambered (lacking a well-developed omasum), and these animals are ruminants.
Birds that live on cows," the Tahitians call the minas, because where there are enough ruminants each bird selects one, and spends the day upon its back, eating the insects that infest its skin. Mystic Isles of the South Seas.
Liberals tend to be more optimistic about the prospects for world order, and they perceive the common humanity ruminantia of the sheep and the goats. Cranmer
Caribou and muskox are included in the ruminant category, which means Nunavut country food products can't be sold overseas until the ban is lifted
Cows, sheep, and deer are ruminants/ruminant animals.
By definition, foregut fermentors comprise animals with a pregastric fermentation chambers such as the rumen, reticulum, and omasum of ruminants and diverticula or fermentative sacs of other ruminant-like mammals.
However, milk-producing ruminant animals were domesticated about 10,000 years ago, according to archaeological evidence.
I sometimes think I am the only really sane man aboard the vessel -- except perhaps the second engineer, who is a kind of ruminant, and would care nothing for all the fiends in the Red Sea so long as they would leave him alone and not disarrange his tools. The Captain of the Polestar and other Tales
_white_; and granting that it was invariably black, other genera of the ruminantia have the muzzle black: and therefore it cannot be said to be Delineations of the Ox Tribe The Natural History of Bulls, Bisons, and Buffaloes. Exhibiting all the Known Species and the More Remarkable Varieties of the Genus Bos.
Humans do not possess either the digestive enzymes or the multiple-pouched digestive system enjoyed by ruminant animals, which are capable of consuming and being well-nourished by grain-based carbohydrates in their naturally-occurring state. Georgianna Donadio, MSc, Ph.D., D.C.: Rethinking Grain-Based Carbohydrates Part II
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An advisory was given to manufacturers of baby foods not to include ruminant offals in their products.
They are most prevalent in the meat of ruminant animals such as cows, sheep and goats, and dairy products including full-fat milk and yoghurt.
They carry on the process to the greatest extent in winter, and stall-fed ruminants carry it on for about seven months in the year; beasts that go in herds, as they get their food out of doors, ruminate to a lesser degree and over a lesser period. The History of Animals
Some pasture quenches milk, as Median grass or lucerne, and that especially in ruminants; other feeding renders it copious, as cytisus and vetch; only, by the way, cytisus in flower is not recommended, as it has burning properties, and vetch is not good for pregnant kine, as it causes increased difficulty in parturition. The History of Animals
Unlike the others, the goat is a ruminant, and will eat almost anything given half a chance.
The ability of ruminants to store partially chewed food in one stomach chamber and to return it to the mouth for further mastication explains why they do not need, and do not have, incisors in the upper jaw.
Most of us think of gluten as the main culprit in grain sensitivities, allergies and immune system insults, but there are several other organic compounds such as raffinose, stachyose, phytic acid phytates, lectins and verbascose that are harmful irritants to humans yet well-tolerated and nourishing for ruminants. Georgianna Donadio, MSc, Ph.D., D.C.: Rethinking Grain-Based Carbohydrates Part II
The use of pellets is less widespread in Norway owing in part to its high cost: the grain products in pelleted ruminant feeds are heavily taxed in Norway and the cost of providing artificial feed for reindeer is between four and six times higher than in Finland. Climate change and reindeer nomadism in Finnmark, Norway
It is like the battles between certain ruminant animals whose horns are set at such an angle that they are incapable of hurting one another. Nineteen Eighty-Four
So mammals are unable to digest cellulose, except some ruminants that have cellulase-secreting bacteria in their rumens.
We will begin, therefore, with the animals belonging to the ruminantia -- the eighth in natural order; taking next the carnivora -- the fifth; and the smaller rodentia -- the sixth; while the birds and reptiles will follow in due course. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America
Of the non-ruminantia we have only the Suidae -- the peccaries belonging to America, and the hippopotami to Africa. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
Finally, the pliocene gives us for the first time, oxen, deer, camels, and other specimens of the ruminantia. Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
Their introduction to Australian ruminants proved to be successful… and the rest is history.
Like ruminants, poultry and pigs raised on pasture also get to enjoy a less stressful life.
a kind of ruminant, and would care nothing for all the fiends in the Red The Captain of the Polestar
Horses, hogs and other nonruminant animals are less affected by prussic acid because their stomachs convert the prussic acid to less toxic formic acid and ammonium chloride. Victoria Advocate stories: News
Le comportement du chevrotain africain, Hyemoschus aquaticus Ogilby (Artiodactyla, Ruminantia). Chapter 11
The primary feature of ruminants is rumination—the regurgitation, re-chewing, and re-swallowing of the partially digested contents of the foregut.
Ruminants -- including the giraffes, the antler-bearing forms called deer, the cavicorn or sheath-horned bovines, ovines and caprines, and the large series of antelopes of Africa and India -- all have precisely this form of jaw, this number and shape and grouping of the teeth. More Science From an Easy Chair
As the cattle paddle, ruminant and ruminating, sociably fussing with flank to flank, they occasionally raise prying muzzles to the horizon where, spectral in the mist and distance out at sea, boats swing to the wind.
This might have endured until he returned to earth had not the airman stopped the engines so that they drifted ruminantly in space below the clouds. The Burning Spear
So mammals are unable to digest cellulose, except some ruminants that have cellulase-secreting bacteria in their rumens.
Yes, a ruminant couldn't live on roughage without the bugs, because these digest the tough cellulose fibre in the plants the animals eat.
But in whichever direction Emmy looked she was always brought back as by a magnet to Alf, who sat ruminantly beside her. Nocturne
In the ruminants (cows, deer, and others) these bacteria live in a series of auxiliary stomachs ‘upstream’ of the true stomach.
Sheep and goats are ruminants and are genomically similar to cows.
Millions of cattle and other ruminants pass so much gas every day, they now account for one-sixth of global methane emissions.

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