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No they are not ruminants. They actually have a digestive system similar to horses, and it is not very optimal, they have a rather great loss of nutrition's, which of course, is a benefit to other feces-eating species in the ecosystem.

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The alpaca isn't quite a ruminant as ruminants have 4 chambers. The alpaca, along with camels and llamas, only has 3 chambers which makes it a pseudo ruminant.

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