What is ruminance?

ruminant is an animal with a stomach that has multiple compartments, allowing it to extract nutrition from grass, hay and other cellulose -rich foods that other animals usually consider non -construction. Another feature of ruminants is that they partially regurgit their food to help the digestive process; This partially broken meal is known as "cud" and these animals often have a thoughtful expression on their faces while chewing their cuds. This explains the origin of the name, which is derived from the Latin ruminare , the same root for the word "chews" as in "thinking". All ruminants are hooves with an even number of fingers and many of them also have corners. The animals have evolved for life on grassland and suddenly drove large volumes of food and then spent them in their free time. The ruminant has basically a storage pantry for food with bacteria that helps break it so that the animals can spend when they are ready.

Some people are under the misconception that ruminants have more stomachs. This is not really the case. In fact, ruminants have only one stomach, but it is divided into different parts, each of which is placed different bacterial flora and fauna that play an important role in the digestion process for ruminants. Most ruminants have four compartments; Some, like camels, have only three.

The first section of the stomach is called Bach. Using bacterial fermentation, the stomach begins to decompose hard cellulose into fatty acids that can be spent. The food is regurgited from the rumen in the form of CUD so that the animal can chew, and further breaks cellulose before entering the reticulum, which even more ferts food. The last two stomachs, Omasum and Abomassum, function more like a human stomach, break down food into usable parts and direct nutrition through different parts of the body and at the same time send waste material through the digestive tract.

Interestingly, many rumorIt has a taste for inappropriate foods, especially metal. In some cases, the ruminant eats things like cans, because it is attracted by adhesive flights based on wheat or plant dyes used in marking. In other cases, the ruminant picks up metal bits in the feed because it is not recognized. This is the main problem because metal shards can tear the animal's digestive system. For cattle, the problem was solved by cattle magnets, magnets that capture pieces of metal so that they cannot damage the cow.