Ruminants and Monogastrics

There probably is some need of dental care for ruminants but the number of ruminants that will live long enough to need dental care and are valuable enough to merit such care is very low. In general, when a ruminant's teeth are no longer working properly, the animal is either sent to slaughter or is humanely euthanized. The one major exception to this would be teeth extractions of molars due to severe infection - most large animal veterinarians will surgically remove the affected teeth and clean out the nidus of infection.

No it isnt

The ossa cordis bone in the heart is an example of a splanchnic bone of ruminants

The reticulum is the hardware stomach, which collects bits of wire, nails, and other foreign objects that the animal has swallowed along with the feed it ingested.

No, an ostrich is an omnivorous bird. Ruminants are mammals of the order Artiodactyla, and includes animals like cattle, sheep, deer, giraffes. An ostrich is not a ruminant.

Ruminants are a group of mammals that have evolved multiple stomachs and eat a predominately vegetation-based diet (herbivores). Because these animals eat a diet with a very low caloric density, the animals need to get all the nutrients out of the food they eat. Therefore, the animals expend energy to gather and eat the vegetation then lay down or relax somewhere and regurgitate (throw up) a small portion of the grass they just ate. They then chew their cud (re-masticate that small portion) to break down the tough undigestible plant fibers and release the digestible sugars from the inside of the plants. Without chewing their cud, these animals would not be able to get enough calories from the food they eat to support a healthy life.

There are actually many animals that have four stomachs; two of the commonly known ones in the United States are cattle and bison.

Yes indeed! Ruminants include wildebeest, hartebeest, cape buffalo, gazelles, springbok (and all other species of antelope) and giraffes. Non-ruminants include lions, zebras, hyenas, crocodiles, baboons, hippos, rhinos, etc.

The rumen, reticulum, omasum and abomasum.

Rumen and reticulum are responsible for microbial fermentation of carbohydrates, degradation of protein and non-protein nitrogen, and partial hydrogenation of unsaturated lipids from feedstuffs eaten by the ruminant. Fermentation in the rumen and reticulum enable break-down if cellulose, fibre, and lignin to digest VFAs and amino acids. Microbes comprising of protozoa and bacteria live in these chambers which help with the fermentation process.

In the Omasum, the main function is the absorption of water and some nutrients from the digesta of the rumen.

In the Abomasum, digesta is redigested, where amino acids and starches undergo further digestion.

The horse is not a ruminant animal. Horses are actually inefficient at digesting feeds high in fibre, mainly because it gets passed through much quicker and more often than you see with a true ruminant being a cow.

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.)

No. Cud is a term used to describe a ruminent's partly digested food that is returned from the first stomach to the mouth for more chewing.

it's when cows eat food, digest it partially, the food comes back >and they chew it again< -- > to ruminate

Intake of animal proteins is a safe way to get all of the essential amino acids (EAA) your body needs. A vegetarian can get all of the EAA from plant foods to build body tissue, but that requires a full variety diet.

Smore100: I happen to be a vegetarian myself, so thank you for explaining that you DO NOT need meat for an intake of nutrients (fats and cholesterol :P ) from animal by products.

butaphosphan provides the organic phosphorus to the bodybutaphosphan is the main component of ATP

butaphosphan influences almost all the biological process in the body

botaphosphan are involved in the countless no.of enzymetic and anabolic reaction

Reticulum is the second chamber of the digestive tract, used for sorting out fine plant particles for further fermentation.

Cause they are afraid that hunters would catch them so they partially digest it.

Glucose

i have no idea someone tell me

Ruminants such as cattle have four compartments to their stomachs. Moving oral to aboral, they are the rumen, the reticulum, the omasum and the abomasum.

Ruminent Stomach/digestive system is most commonly found in cattle, deers etc:

4 chambred stomach:

1- Rumen where plant material first gets processed

2- Reticulum, the animal regurgitates the material/cud

3-Omasum, the finely processed food passes through for further processing

4-Abomassum final chambe, true stomach where digestive enzyme breaks down the bacteria and releases nutrients.

That all depends on the individual animal you're referring to. Ruminants like cattle, sheep, goats, deer, giraffes, antelope, bison, buffalo, moose, etc. all have four chambers in their stomachs. Camelids like camels, alpacas and llamas only have three compartments. Other animals that are not cud-chewing animals only have one chamber in that one stomach. Such animals are referred to as monogastrics (all apes and monkeys [including humans], pigs, bears, all wild and domestic dogs, all wild and domestic cats, all insects, monotremes, marsupials, etc.), or hind-gut fermentors (all equids like horses, zebras and donkeys, hippos, rhinos, elephants).

Behind the lungs on the left side of the ruminant.

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.

Cud is a portion of food that returns from a ruminant's stomach to the mouth to be chewed for the second time. More accurately, it is a bolus of semi-degraded food regurgitated from the reticulorumen of a ruminant. Cud is produced during the physical digestive process of rumination.