Daniel Mallory Ortberg

Did you know that, pound for pound, the moose is the leanest ruminant on Earth? It's true. Moose are very in tune with their natural surroundings.

American Writer

Ruminants are mainly herbivores and part of a classification system based on digestion.

Animal Classification

Ruminants eat their food in stages which includes regurgitating and rechewing their food.

Multistep Eating

The term distinguishes these animals from others that digest food in one go.

Distinguished Feature

The adjective describes a complex system that's specifically adapted to plant breakdown.

Unique Digestion

Use 'ruminant' to show understanding of biological terms and when discussing animal diet.

Specific Vocabulary

Ruminant animals are herbivores; they don't eat meat, only plant material.

Non-Carnivorous

 so they do feed on a lot of food but if you go through a rumination stage you feed on a lot less then you would if your hand get fermenter so a zebra has got twice the amounts of food going through than an animal of its equivalent size that is a ruminant and that is just

Safari Live - Day 265 PIPE...

 What happens to the grass when you do this? When a ruminant grazes grass, the grass is cut from this height to this height, and it immediately does something very interesting. Any one of you who gardens knows that there is something called the root-shoot ratio,

Michael Pollan: A...

 want let it really realize its desires its physiological distinctiveness put that in play but look at it from the point of view of the grass now what happens to the grass when you do this when a ruminant grazes grass the grass

Ruminant

Animal Classification

Multistep Eating

Distinguished Feature

Compare with

Never forget "Ruminant"

WordUp Chrome Extension