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What is a pseudo-ruminant?
A pseudoruminant is the classification of an animal based on its digestive tract. These types of animals are still considered foregut-fermentors, but only have three chambers in their stomach, not four like true ruminants do. Pseudo means "false". So they are "false" ruminants. The chambers are basically the reticulum, omasum and abomasum. They do not have the characteristic rumen that identifies ruminants as ruminants. The animals that are often referred to as pseudoruminants are all camelids (camels, alpacas, llamas, etc.)
What is a fore-gut fermentor?
A fore-gut fermentor is the same name for a ruminant. Ruminants have a compartment where the feed they eat is fermented that is located prior to their true stomach, being the abomasum. Because the Abomasum is the true stomach and the other three chambers are more or less an extension of the esophagus, this is why ruminants are called fore-gut fermentors. Ruminants include such animals as cattle, sheep, goats, deer, bison, buffalo, yak, elk, moose, etc.
What does a true midge eat?
True midges eat animals or plants. Some species eat both.
Which is bigger a species or a community?
A species. A community is a group of a species of animal living in a certain area, whereas a species is all of the animals worldwide contained within the species.
Is true kosher wine alcoholic?
Anyone can become an alcoholic whether wine is kosher or not.
What are ruminates?
Ruminants are animals that have a four-chambered stomachs designed for digesting coarse plant matter. They are also called fore-gut fermentors because one of the chambers, the rumen, is responsible for the fermentation and digestion of forage through the use of microflora in the rumen. Ruminants are also known to regurgitate and chew a bolus of partially digested matter called cud.Ruminant animals include the following:CattleBisonSheepGoatsAntelopeDeerCaribou/ReindeerMooseElkBuffaloGiraffeCamels, alpacas and llamas, though they too chew cud like ruminant animals, are actually not true ruminants. They are called "pseudo-ruminants" because they only have two forestomachs (three stomach chambers) and lack a rumen.Horses, rabbits, pigs, humans, bears and many other animals are non-ruminants because all listed only have a simple stomach. These simple-stomached animals are called "Monogastrics." Horses, rabbits and hares are capable of being strictly herbivorous due to a large functional cecum connecting to the large intestine which is where the main fermentation of digesta occurs. Not only are they monogastrics, but they are also called "hind-gut fermentors" due to this. By contrast, ruminants and psuedo-ruminants are called "fore-gut fermentors" because the fermentation occurs before the stomach--being the "abomasum"--hence the fact that they have three (ruminants) or two (pseudo-ruminants) "forestomachs."Ruminant animals are animals with a complex / four chamber stomachRuminants are those animals that are able to chew cud and have more than one chamber in their stomach. Such animals include cattle, sheep, deer, bison, moose, caribou, antelope, etc.
Why is the camel a pseudoruminant?
Camels have a three-chambered stomach, not four. True ruminants have the typical four-chambered stomach, but camelids like camels do not. They also lack the characteristic rumen, only having the reticulum, omasum and abomasum.
Is it true that animals do not help each other escape predators?
No, in many species parents will protect offspring.
Will a creature exhibit aggressive behavior only against animals of different species?
I wouldn't say that is true. Some animals have fights within their own species, humans, dogs, cats, birds, gorillas they all fight with their own species occasionally.
Why is it not true that plants can live without animals but animals cant live without animals?
Because plants don't have a need for animals, but animals need company and a mate so that they can continue and make their species last.
Are camels ruminants?
No, ruminants are those animals like cows which regurgitate their food and chew it, then swallow it again for further digestion. Elephants don't do this, their food passes straight through the alimentary canal as ours does.
Sometimes animals that are introduced into an area that they have never lived in before out- compete and endanger resident species?
The original species are not used to the new predators being in their environment, so they will become endangered and the new species will dominate.
