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Do hares eat cud

Updated: 8/18/2019
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No.

Only ungulates (cattle, antelop, deer) eat cud. Basically, they eat grass, but they cannot digest grass (no mammals can.) So they developed a system of outsourcing the job to somebody else.

They have symbiotic bacteria in a big pouch in their stomach. When they eat grass, the grass goes into the pouch. The bacteria eat the grass and multiplies enormously. Then the ungulates would belch out the lump of bacteria and chew it again. That is cud. It is high-protein, rich in minerals and very good food.

Rabbits simply do not have symbiotic bacteria pouch in their stomach, so they do not eat cud. Interestingly, The Bible (Levictus) wrongly described that rabbits chew cud.

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