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They have a unique stomach with four sections as do all ruminants
Sheep are like most ruminants and have a single stomach with four very distinct compartments; the four compartments are often referred to as four different stomachs. The four compartments are called the rumen, the reticulum, the omasum and the abomasum.
Elephants are not ruminants and therefore do not have four stomachs. Their stomach is very similar to mammals with a simple stomach much like our own.
Ruminantsare animals that have a 4 chambered stomach, meaning they have one stomach with four divisions. Ruminants include some large animals that chew grass or leaves, such as cows and sheep.It is sometimes believed that almost any animal that chews grass or leaves is a ruminant with four stomachs but this is certainly not the case. Herbivorous marsupials are not ruminants; nor are rabbits and hares, or camels, llamas and alpacas, for example.
They are called that because they have a four part stomach.
Ruminants have a compartmentalised stomach. There are 4 compartments, the rumen, reticulum, omasum and abomasum. A non ruminant does not have a compartmentalised stomach, the non ruminants stomach has similar fucntions to that of the abomasum in the ruminants
The four stomachs (or compartments) are in the following order:The rumenThe reticulumThe omasumThe abomasum
They only have one stomach, and do not chew cud.
These animals are called ruminants. Animals such as cattle, goats, sheep, deer, and buffalo are ruminants meaning they have one four chambered stomach.
Actually ruminants cannot digest cellulose, they have symbiotic bacteria in a part of their stomach called a "rumen" digest the cellulose down to sugars and starches that the ruminants can actually digest in another part of their stomach later.
reticulum
Like all deer, moose are ruminants. Ruminants only have one stomach. However, the confusion comes from the fact that the stomach of a ruminant is divided into four chambers.
Animals with more than one stomach, such as pigs and cows, are referred to as "polygastric", poly- meaning many and -gastric referring to the stomach.The scientific term is called poly-gastric ("many-stomach), for example cows are ruminants, they have four stomachs (or one stomach with four chambers).
Dogs are monogastrics. Cows are ruminants. Monogastrics have one simple stomach: Ruminants have a complex four-chambered stomach.
They have the same four-chambered stomach that cows have and are capable of chewing cud just like cows do.
They are called ruminants because they have a four chambered stomach (Rumen, Abomasum, reticulum, omasum), food will enter the rumen and then the animal will then (during its resting period) regurgitate the food re chewing it and then swallowing it where it then enters the remaining three stomachs (this process is called chewing cud and is repeated until all food is digested).