The real fact is, that ruminants with horns and without upper canines have more delicate flesh than the others, and seem more especially destined to be eaten.
To ruminate is to chew over again what has been already swallowed; and, however droll this may seem to you, it is the business which all ruminants are born to.
But first I must tell you that, by some special privilege, the reason for which I do not undertake to explain, the order ofruminants is the only one containing animals with horns on their foreheads.
Some ruminants have no horns; and then, as if in compensation for the deficiency, we find them provided with canines in the upper jaw, in addition to those below.
Saws of this kind were, no doubt, employed for fashioning the antlers of the reindeer, and other ruminants that shed their horns.
The sheep, the ox, and other ruminants were converted into domesticated cattle, capable of insuring a constant supply of food.
A group of ruminants whose horns are hollow, and planted on a bony process of the front, as the ox.
Quite rightly: since the only ruminants which have no horns, the camel and the musk-ox, have upper incisors, and these are wanting in all horned ruminants.
However, it is especially with the rodents, the ungulata, and the ruminants that we find a highly developed practice of mutual aid.
Many of them are nocturnal in their habits; others conceal themselves underground; and those ruminants whose social life and migrations offer the greatest interest do not let man approach their herds.
The fact that the quagga lives together with ruminants feeding on the same grass as itself excludes that hypothesis, and we must look for some incompatibility of character, as in the case of the hare and the rabbit.
The ruminants evolved in the Old World, and it was not until the later Miocene that the ancestors of the antelope and of some deer found their way to North America.
Those ruminants which are classed under the generic name of Ox, may be very naturally divided into two distinct groups.
That is the common characteristic of ruminants in general.
In many vertebrates digestion is carried on nearly continuously, without marked interruption, especially in many ungulates, ruminants and rodents.
The three stomachs of the cetaceans are similar to those of the ruminants (Fig.
In solipeds and ruminants the arch is interrupted on each side by the inter-dental space or bars (Fig.
An acute infectious disease of ruminants and swine, characterized by hemorrhages in the different body tissues that appear as small red spots or blotches.
This form of indigestion occurs when ruminants have access to feeds that they are not accustomed to.
Describe the symptoms of infectious ophthalmia of ruminants and the treatment.
The complicated stomach of ruminants predispose them to diseases of this portion of the digestive tract.
The outcome is less favorable in ruminants than in solipeds.
At Bruniquel a human skull was found which had been opened in the same way as the heads of ruminants amongst which it was picked up, and on its external surface were deep notches, which appear to have been made with a flint hatchet.
Spring noticed at Chauvaux a great many bones which were nearly all those of women and children, side by side with which lay others of ruminants belonging to species still extant.
A genus of very large extinct ruminants found in the Tertiary formation of India.
We have also giraffes, stags, and antelopes, the first ruminants known to us, and a great variety of smaller and less noteworthy creatures.
In the immense prairies where these ruminants feed, a few Indians covered by bisons' skins advance on all fours, so that nothing betrays their presence.
These differ from all other ruminants in possessing solid deciduous horns which are always more or less branched.
No one will dispute that the rudimentary teeth in the upper jaws of young ruminants, and certain rudimentary bones of the leg, are highly serviceable in exhibiting the close affinity between Ruminants and Pachyderms.
Mercury, however, is not very frequently given to cattle by veterinary surgeons, ruminants generally appearing rather susceptible to its poisonous effects.
With ruminants the development of horns generally stands in an inverse relation with that of even moderately developed canine teeth.
With Ruminants sexual differences of colour occur more commonly than in any other order.
The ruminants are eminently polygamous, and they present sexual differences more frequently than almost any other group of mammals; this holds good, especially in their weapons, but also in other characters.
Colonel Cunningham also states that many ruminants have a great animosity to snakes, and are prone to attack any that they may come across.
A thick under-fur is developed in the winter-coat, as in all other ruminants dwelling at high altitudes.
But, if you were to ask the same person 'Do you mean that cows are all the ruminants that there are, or only some of them?
I did not mean either one or the other; I was not thinking of ruminants as a class.
But as we advance eastward, we find these gigantic and mis-shapen ruminants in great numbers, the faithful companions and indispensable auxiliaries of the nomades of the East.
I must not omit to particularize, among the great Ruminants of the Tropical regions of the Old World, the Buffaloes, or Wild Oxen, which feed in immense troops in the fertile and well-watered prairies.
Among the hollow-horned ruminants I may mention the Saiga, a kind of antelope which inhabits the Asiatic Steppes, and is met with even in Poland.
The section of Ruminants without horns is represented in the Steppes by the camel.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ruminants" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
