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Pseudoruminant is a classification of animals based on their digestive tract differing from the ruminants. Hippopotami and camels are ungulate mammals with a three-chambered stomach (ruminants have a four-chambered stomach) while equids (horses, asses, zebras) and rhinoceroses are monogastric herbivores. [1] [2]
Hofmann and Stewart divided ruminants into three major categories based on their feed type and feeding habits: concentrate selectors, intermediate types, and grass/roughage eaters, with the assumption that feeding habits in ruminants cause morphological differences in their digestive systems, including salivary glands, rumen size, and rumen ...
Camels and other camelids (alpacas, llamas, etc) are technically "pseudo-ruminants" with three- (not four-) chambered stomachs, called C1, C2, and C3. Do camelids chew cud? Yes. When camelids spit at you, they are spitting their cud. Perhaps a separate wikipedia page about Pseudo-ruminants is required. [1] (comments by User:AslanEntropy|talk)
The ruminant digestive system. The omasum, also known as the bible, [1] the fardel, [1] the manyplies [1] and the psalterium, [1] is the third compartment of the stomach in ruminants. The omasum comes after the rumen and reticulum and before the abomasum. Different ruminants have different omasum structures and function based on the food that ...
Traditional ruminant (i.e. cow, sheep, goat) Non-ruminant monogastric (i.e. pig, human) Non-ruminant Hind-gut fermentor (i.e. horse, rabbit) List of pseudoruminant species; Camelid species: Camels, Llamas, Alpacas etc... Hippopotamus — Preceding unsigned comment added by AslanEntropy (talk • contribs) 22:44, 28 December 2013 (UTC) Digestive ...
A monogastric organism is contrasted with ruminant organisms (which have four-chambered complex stomachs), such as cattle, goats, and sheep. Herbivores with monogastric digestion can digest cellulose in their diets by way of symbiotic gut bacteria. However, their ability to extract energy from cellulose digestion is less efficient than in ...
It also describes the hyrax as chewing its cud, reflecting its observable ruminant-like mandible motions; the Hebrew phrase in question (מַעֲלֵה גֵרָה) means "bringing up cud". Some of the modern translations refer to them as rock hyraxes.
While foregut fermentation is generally considered more efficient, and monogastric animals cannot digest cellulose as efficiently as ruminants, [5] hindgut fermentation allows animals to consume small amounts of low-quality forage all day long and thus survive in conditions where ruminants might not be able to obtain nutrition adequate for their needs.