Is a rabbit a ruminant

Answer 1

Ruminant animals include cattle, goats, sheep, giraffes, bison, yaks, buffalo, deer, Gazelles, dik-diks, mouse deer, hartebeests, wildebeests, moose, caribou, elk, reindeer, muskox, etc.

Please see the related question below for more such animals.

Answer 2

If by ruminant, you mean an animal that eats grass, swallows it to store in the stomach only to regurgitate and chew it later, then no. The rabbit is not a ruminant.

However, there are some people particularly in the religious community who say that the rabbit "in essence" ruminates. This is because there are certain verses in The Bible that classify the rabbit as a "chewer of the cud." They use the fact that rabbits do practice corporphagia or eating its own dung. So while rabbits don't bring food up from their stomachs they eventually eat some of their food twice. But by the modern definition rabbits do NOT "chew the cud."

Answer 3

noun 1. any even-toed, hoofed mammal of the suborder Ruminantia, being comprised of cloven-hoofed, cud-chewing quadrupeds, and including, besides domestic cattle, bison, buffalo, deer, antelopes, giraffes, camels, and chevrotains.

Answer 4

No, ruminant means to bring up food from the stomach and chew it again, cows sheep and deer are examples of animals that are ruminant.

Answer 5

No, pigs are monogastrics. There is a rare kind of pig on southeast Asian Islands called a Babirusa which issupposedly ruminant to some extent, but familiar pigs are not.

Answer 6

no. pigs have one stomach and have close to the same digestive system humans have.

Answer 7

No. Birds are related to reptiles and not mammals. Ruminants are grazing animals with multiple stomachs, like cows.

Answer 8

A chicken is a monogastric.