| 单词 | ruminant |
| 例句 | The danger lies in the increase in nitrates, for the peculiar physiology of the ruminant at once poses a critical problem. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z A trocar being a sheathed sort of ice pick instrument you stab into the bellies of foundering ruminants to let out the deadly gases. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It is like the battles between certain ruminant animals whose horns are set at such an angle that they are incapable of hurting one another. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The same danger exists for wild animals belonging to the group of ruminants, such as deer, antelope, sheep, and goats. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z But All the Birds, Singing is not a ruminant whodunnit exactly; it is a thoughtful and intense account of a young woman seemingly determined to disappear from the world's radar. All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld – review 2013-06-30T09:00:01Z “Nope” addresses such matters in a mood that feels more ruminant than argumentative. ‘Nope’ Review: Hell Yes 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z There's not much to do other than stroll around and admire the scenery, eat a picnic — don't be put off by the freely grazing ruminants — or visit the local folk museum, www.ryedalefolkmuseum.co.uk. Five Reasons to Visit the North York Moors 2010-06-17T09:25:00Z “I would have to see exactly what kind of ruminant it is. Maybe a bighorn sheep. It should have been declared.” At JFK Airport, every day is wild for U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service inspectors 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z I've visited one of these boarding schools, or the ruminants of one, with an activist who's now gone — rest in peace to Russell Means. Documentary “The King”: “The American people are Elvis. They have been hoodwinked” 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z I’m a carnivore, but I don’t want my choices to wreak environmental havoc; by taking an overpopulated, methane-producing ruminant out of the system, you’re actually doing the planet a favor. I shot a deer for Thanksgiving. Here’s why. 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z Best among them are ruminants such as cows, sheep, goats and deer. Why manure rules in the garden 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z Rather, Ogawa’s ruminant style captures the alienation of being alive as the world’s ecosystems, ice sheets, languages, animal species and possible futures vanish more quickly than any one mind can apprehend. ‘Read Receipts’ On: Two Dystopian Novels Predict the Surveillance State 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z As with most ruminants, cattle make the most of a paltry diet, converting cud, grains, and crop waste into muscle and milk. Quitting Cows Could Have Big Environmental Impacts, but It’s Harder Than It Sounds 2023-11-07T05:00:00Z As with most ruminants, cattle make the most of a paltry diet, converting cud, grains and crop waste into muscle and milk. Why can't we just quit cows? 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z Getting the woolly ruminants to chow down on the right plants comes down to timing, said Jack Anderson, co-owner and operator of Cuyama Lamb, which provides the grazing services. Volunteers wanted: Must love Santa Barbara's great outdoors. And sheep 2023-10-13T04:00:00Z This indicates that they not only farmed, but raised ruminant animals. Who were the Tarim Basin mummies? Here’s what we know—so far 2023-09-15T04:00:00Z They now maintain a milking herd of about 25 ruminants and often have 100 sheep, including retirees, before selling some for meat and wool. At Harmony Fields, a couple raises sheep, kids and awareness of small farming 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z The appendix also contains bacteria that break down cellulose, giving it an important role in the digestive systems of ruminants. Concepts of Biology 2013-04-25T00:00:00Z Fat residues revealed whether meat from ruminants like deer or cattle was on the menu, or whether people were boiling fish soup, pork, or plants instead. Ancient hunter-gatherers were potters, too 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z Goats are ruminants, which are mammals that get nutrients from plants by fermenting it in their specialized stomach. SDOT hires the GOAT for clearing vegetation 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z An interesting feature of the ruminants’ mouth is that they do not have upper incisor teeth. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z By contrast, mountain gorillas can spend up to 90% of their waking time chewing, on par with ruminants such as goats and cows. Chewing burns more calories than you think—and may have shaped our evolution 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z Animals called ruminants, like cattle, have a rumen, where symbiotic bacteria digest cellulose. Miller & Levine Biology 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z Cows and sheep are ruminants, meaning they have special, complex digestive systems with multichambered stomachs to digest their food. Got burping livestock? In New Zealand, you might be taxed. 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z The major issue for agriculture is methane - a greenhouse gas emitted by ruminant animals such as cattle and sheep. Climate change: Stormont to debate Edwin Poots' bill at Stormont 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z To help digest the large amount of plant material, the stomach of the ruminants is a multi-chambered organ, as illustrated in Figure 25.8. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z The ruminant meat can carry disease-causing sickness and has been linked to outbreaks. Minnesota border agents seize disease-prone bushmeat from African nation 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z "The levels that are used to feed ruminants are very, very small so you don't need to get a lot of it in order to get an impact," she said. Ireland looks to seaweed in quest to curb methane from cows 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z “We therefore need a different sets of policies such as using half the amount of electricity. We must cut levels of flying, shipping, cement and ruminants because there’s no way of dealing with them”. Climate change: What did the scientists make of COP26? 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z “There are regenerative systems that absolutely need large ruminants to cycle nutrients into the land.” Keeping Cattle on the Move and Carbon in the Soil 2021-10-31T04:00:00Z The stomach is the major site for protein digestion in animals other than ruminants. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z Deer are ruminants, like cattle, sheep and goats. Perspective | Venison is the most eco-friendly food on the planet — if you hunt the deer yourself 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z California, Wisconsin and Iowa are the top goat dairy states, but the popular and curious ruminants are increasingly turning up in other states. Family farm swaps cows for goats amid changed dairy industry 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z These include restoring carbon-absorbing peatlands, reducing methane emissions from cattle and other ruminants, and increasing the productivity of existing farmland to discourage deforestation. Planting crops — and carbon, too 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z To them, dairy farmers are cogs in an inhumane industrial food production system that consigns these docile ruminants to a lifetime of misery. Is Dairy Farming Cruel to Cows? 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z Multiple stomach chambers present in ruminant animals contain cellulase, which break down plant material. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z “Thank goodness ruminants can use it, because otherwise I don’t know what we’d do with all this stuff,” Mr. Defoor said. Belching Cows and Endless Feedlots: Fixing Cattle’s Climate Issues 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, a farm science research institute in New Zealand, AgResearch, hopes to target methane production at its source by eliminating methanogens, the microbes thought to be responsible for producing the greenhouse gas in ruminants. Biotechnology could change the cattle industry. Will it succeed? 2020-09-06T04:00:00Z “People may joke, but cows and other ruminants burp as much methane as the oil and gas industry,” says Earth-systems researcher Robert Jackson. Daily briefing: Meat consumption and natural gas boost methane emissions to record high 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z “People may joke, but cows and other ruminants burp as much methane as the oil and gas industry,” he says. Global methane levels soar to record high 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z How does this polygastric digestive system enhance digestion efficiency in ruminants? Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z Methane is a very powerful greenhouse gas and ruminants produce a lot of it. Why you should go animal-free: 18 arguments for eating meat debunked 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z Of the 19.9 billion tonnes of CO2 equivalent a year now emitted by agriculture, forestry and land use change, methane produced by cattle and other ruminant animals contributes about 8.3 billion tonnes, said McKinsey. Zero-emission tractors, cattle that belch less gas can help curb global warming: McKinsey 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z In the lab, researchers used bacteria from the stomachs of sheep — members, like cows, of the ruminant family — to see how certain combinations would change methane levels. The Business of Burps: Scientists Smell Profit in Cow Emissions 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z Short-tailed, small and coloured white, grey or chocolate brown, the sheep are descendants of the most primitive breeds of ruminants, Kevin says, and have been living on the island for thousands of years. The seaweed-eating sheep that belch in a good way 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z The appendix of grazing animals also contains bacteria that digest cellulose, giving it an important role in the digestive systems of ruminants. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z And the closest relative of the two viruses, which is even older, causes peste des petits ruminants, a sheep and goat disease that probably crossed to cattle more easily than to humans. Measles may have emerged when large cities rose, 1500 years earlier than thought 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z However, it is unusual to see a ruminant walking on paved city streets. Deer spotted hoofing it through Belltown 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z The carbon isotopes inside two of the vessels suggested they held milk from ruminants, such as cows, sheep, or goats. These mysterious vessels are among the world’s oldest baby bottles 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z Although this is not a particularly flattering metaphor, Nussbaum is like a ruminant, chewing and digesting her subject, when others are satisfied with gumming and gulping. Review: Author Emily Nussbaum sees the big picture on the small screen 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z These microorganisms are found in soil and in the digestive tracts of ruminants, such as cows and sheep. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z But the real story is that the methane emissions of food are very disproportionate, with rice and ruminants almost completely responsible! Should We Eat Less Rice? 2019-08-25T04:00:00Z Cows and other ruminants such as goats and sheep have a special stomach called a rumen that houses millions of microbes. Gut bacteria could be key to producing tastier cow’s milk 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z But like sheep and goats, cows are a type of ruminant – that is, they have four stomachs. 'Are a cow's farts the worst for the planet?' Children's climate questions answered 2019-06-29T04:00:00Z “Eat less beef or ruminants, don’t overeat and don’t waste food.” Quiz: How Does Your Diet Contribute to Climate Change? 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z The four-compartment gastric chamber provides larger space and the microbial support necessary to digest plant material in ruminants. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z Cows and other ruminants are responsible for two-thirds of those agricultural emissions. No One Is Taking Your Hamburgers. But Would It Even Be a Good Idea? 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z And better pasture management is needed to increase the total supply of products from ruminants — particularly the use of extensive grazing systems for areas where crop production is not suitable. Four steps to food security for swelling cities 2019-02-03T05:00:00Z But he said cows and other ruminant animals nevertheless produce a lot of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas. Less beef, more beans. Experts say world needs a new diet 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z After increased productivity, the WRI report focuses on meat from ruminant animals. Beef-eating 'must fall drastically' as world population grows 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z The ruminant regurgitates cud from the reticulum, chews it, and swallows it into a third stomach, the omasum, which removes water. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z The WHO is targeting industrially made trans fats, but trans fats are also contained in milk, butter and cheese derived from ruminants, mainly cows and sheep. Industrial trans fats must be removed from food supply, WHO says 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z If the ruminants move like wild buffalo, in dense herds, never staying in one place for too long, the land benefits from the momentary disturbance. Can Dirt Save the Earth? 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z The bacteria live in the intestines of cows, pigs and other ruminants. CDC’s warning on E. coli outbreak expands to all romaine lettuce 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z In addition, ruminant digestion causes cattle to belch and otherwise emit huge quantities of methane. Opinion | The Case for a Carbon Tax on Beef 2018-03-17T04:00:00Z The cud then passes onto the fourth stomach, the abomasum, where it is digested by enzymes produced by the ruminant. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z The ruminants were shown different photos on two computer screens; the sheep made their choice by breaking an infrared beam with their noses to release the treat. Sheep 'can recognise human faces' 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z “The 'canine' looks to me like a piece of a ruminant tooth,” Begun says by email. Ancient Teeth Found in Europe Belonged to Mystery Primate 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z Letting ruminants graze is a better system, some argue. Grass-fed cows won’t save the climate, report finds 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z The action within ruminants’ stomachs is exactly the same process that is required to produce the curds that eventually become cheese. A Cat Turned Milk into Popular Plastic 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z How is plant material passed through, digested, and absorbed in the ruminant digestive system? Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z All ruminants—not only cattle but wild ruminants, such as deer, antelope, sheep, and goats—have a digestive system of extraordinary complexity, including a stomach divided into several chambers. Silent Spring—I 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z And sheep, like other ruminants including cattle, produce methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, in their burps. Fig Leaves Are Out. What to Wear to Be Kind to the Planet? 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z And even under the best of conditions, carbon sequestration is not at levels high enough to counteract the ruminants’ own emissions, the report says. Grass-fed cows won’t save the climate, report finds 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z “Over 200,000 beef, many small ruminants in the area, but no full-time vets.” More than just horse sense 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z The ruminant regurgitates cud from the rumen, and the food is passed into the omasum for water removal and then into the small and large intestines for nutrient and further water absorption. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z After opposition from the farming lobby, enteric methane emitted by ruminant animals was excluded from the bill. European parliament passes watered-down draft law on air pollution 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z In Zimbabwe, ecologist Allan Savory reveals how intensified grazing by wild ruminants is enabling 95% of rainfall to soak into the soil, and rivers to recover. Books in brief : Nature : Nature Research 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z Hard cheeses require the use of chymosin, an enzyme found naturally in the stomachs of ruminant animals. G.M.O.’s in Food? Vermonters Will Soon Know 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z They were a genuine odd couple—the wonkish ruminant sharing a cockpit with Mr. Congeniality, whose days flew by without a flutter of self-doubt. “Independence Day”: Peace No More 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z The ruminant regurgitates cud from the rumen, and the food is passed into the abomasum for water removal and then into the small and large intestines for nutrient and further water absorption. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z Prime among humans’ favored animals were ruminants — cows, sheep, goats. There’s basically no landscape on Earth that humans haven’t altered 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z This week, he answered a few questions by email about his life as a ruminant. This man lived as a goat for nearly a week. We asked him why. 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z And, if the prospect of swallowing food down such a long neck is startling, recall that giraffes are ruminants, and that whatever goes down must also come up. How the Giraffe Got Its Neck 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z Consider the numbers: India is home to more than 280 million cows, and 200 million more ruminant animals like sheep, goats, yaks and buffalo. India’s Answer to Global Warming: Cows That Belch Less 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z The ruminant regurgitates cud from the rumen, and the food is passed into the omasum for water removal and then into the small and large intestines for nutrient and further water absorption. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z In that project, the scientists constructed in the lab the entire "genetic software" of Mycoplasma mycoides, a microbe that lives in cattle and other ruminants. Synthetic bug given 'fewest genes' - BBC News 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z To do this, his team identified and synthesised proteins found on the surface of ruminant methanogens, and injected these into sheep and cattle, to try to raise antibodies to those proteins. Stopping the big burp 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z A prehistoric giraffe that died out 10,000 years ago might have been the largest ruminant that walked the Earth. Scientists weigh in on 'giraffe relative' fossil - BBC News 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z An earlier version of this article misstated the amount of methane that ruminant animals in India are estimated to release into the atmosphere annually. India’s Answer to Global Warming: Cows That Belch Less 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z Birds digest plant material more slowly than ruminants. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z In addition, Dr Sánchez explained that because ruminants are found across the world and are very sensitive to their habitats, their evolution holds clues to changes in land ecosystems throughout history. Giraffe’s long lost cousin found? - BBC News 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z But the complicated ecosystem of a ruminant’s stomach includes other creatures, too. Stopping the big burp 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z "This was probably the largest giraffe relative to have ever existed, which makes it the largest ruminant that's ever existed," said Mr Basu, who is studying for a PhD. Scientists weigh in on 'giraffe relative' fossil - BBC News 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z “We need to understand where the ruminants sit compared to other wildlife that aren’t heavily domesticated for production systems,” he says. Kangaroo farts could have implications for farmers in climate change fight 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z Why is an increased number of stomach chambers beneficial for ruminants and pseudo-ruminants? Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z Organizers used a herd of the ravenous ruminants to clear brush from a plot of land in Portsmouth that will eventually be turned over to man’s best friend. Dog park committee enlists land-clearing specialists: goats 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z A hundred million tonnes of it a year for all the world’s domesticated ruminants, according to the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation. Stopping the big burp 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z Such a large ruminant might have struggled to eat enough to provide the energy needed to power such a large body, he added. Scientists weigh in on 'giraffe relative' fossil - BBC News 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z Organizers used a herd of the ravenous ruminants to clear brush from a plot of land in Portsmouth that will eventually be turned over to man's best friend. Rhode Island dog park project enlists land-clearing specialists: a herd of goats 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z The ruminant digestive system has evolved several differences from the traditional mammalian monogastric digestive system because they consume large amounts of plant material. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z Cows, along with goats, sheep, buffalo, and even camels are known as ruminant animals, and all of them burp methane. Burp by Burp, Fighting Emissions from Cows 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z A surprising and neglected one is the world’s ruminant livestock—cattle, sheep and so on. Stopping the big burp 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z Even though Saiga is capable to eat large amount of this plants, they are poisonous to ruminants when consumed in large amounts. Previous Mass Die-Offs of the Endangered Saiga Antelope Hint at a Warm, Wet, Weedy Culprit in Kazakhstan 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z Customers sit on the adjoining terrace and feed hay to the ruminants while munching on their own snacks. Tokyo animal cafes offer urbanites quality time with pets 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z Multiple stomach chambers in ruminant animals contain microbes that have cellulase, which breaks down plant material. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z She completed her formal education by earning a master’s degree in ruminant nutrition, also from SDSU. New 4-H assistant started early with organization 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z Each day, and often well into the night, a giraffe consumes about 75 pounds of leaves, shoots, vines and occasional bits of dried meat licked from bones, all digested in its four-chambered ruminant stomach. Our Understanding of Giraffes Does Not Measure Up 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z Feed for cattle and other ruminants cannot contain "rendered" parts of ruminants. U.S. aligns beef rules with global mad cow standards 2013-11-02T15:58:32Z Then there’s the problem of the greenhouse gas emissions, particularly potent methane, from all those ruminant belches and their waste, often stored in massive, stinky lagoons. Cultured Beef: Do We Really Need a $380,000 Burger Grown in Petri Dishes? 2013-08-05T20:45:00.510Z Multiple stomach chambers in ruminant animals allow stronger smooth muscle contractions, which break down plant material. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z Dairying, says Roz Gillis, also an archaeozoologist at the Paris museum, “may have been one of the reasons why human populations began trapping and keeping ruminants such as cattle, sheep and goats”. Archaeology: The milk revolution 2013-07-31T17:20:20.587Z Just to the west, a film crew had given Sheep Meadow a nineteenth-century cast by releasing ruminants to populate a scene in a romantic comedy. How Manhattan Got Its Street Grid [Excerpt] 2013-02-15T16:15:00.580Z Of course, 49ers fans, given their understanding nature, were willing to give Lewis a complete pass on his medical quest involving some of the more familiar and popular ruminants. On Pro Football: Strange Is Normal for New Orleans – Jeré Longman 2013-02-04T15:42:44Z Many ruminants discontinue lactating in harsh climatic environments. Exploring the DromeDairy: Camels and Their Milk 2013-01-23T14:15:00.293Z Multiple stomach chambers in ruminant animals allow the food to stay in the stomach for a longer time so that peristaltic movements and the action of enzymes on food particles occurs for a longer time. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z They are also found in the rumen of cattle and other ruminants and in the intestinal tract of animals in general. Archaebacteria: The Third Domain of Life Missed by Biologists for Decades 2013-01-01T00:45:00.170Z All in the blood Camels, as ruminants like cattle and sheep, digest food by chewing the cud. Camel Genome Holds Desert Survival Secrets 2012-11-13T21:45:02.987Z Dinosaur bone tissue is indistinguishable from that of today’s endothermic ruminants, Köhler says, meaning that dinosaurs were endothermic, too. Dinosaurs Might Have Had Warm-Blooded Animals' Fast Metabolism 2012-06-27T22:45:02.223Z It is the ruminant season, when it is needful that one should digest what has been stored up within. A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. 2012-04-23T02:00:29.820Z The fourth or digestive stomach of a ruminant, which leads from the third stomach omasum. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z A genus of ruminant quadrupeds, including the wild and domestic cattle, distinguished by a stout body, hollow horns, and a large fold of skin hanging from the neck. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z The data do not warrant a very positive conclusion, yet they seem to imply that the receptivity on the part of the dog is greater than that of the small ruminants. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z The odontoid process of the axis is wide, flat, and hollowed above, as in the ruminants. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z I saw here a few ruminant sheep gazing off upon the sea. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z One of a group of ruminant quadrupeds, intermediate between the deer and the goat. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z Relating to that tribe of ruminant mammals of which the genus Bos is the type. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z This antagonism between the blood of the ruminant and the germ of rabies finds a parallel in the case of other disease-poisons in their relations to the nuclei of the tissues. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z Llama, l�′ma, or lā′ma, n. a South American ruminant of the camel family, used for transport in the Andes. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z Dr. Mullin was collecting manure from giraffes and other exotic ruminants at the zoo, a few blocks from his laboratory. Tackling the Riddle of Putting a Zebra in Your Tank 2012-01-09T22:42:37Z With the help of her collaborators, Begall, a zoologist at the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany, ultimately found that the unassuming ruminants were on to something. The Compass Within (preview) 2011-12-27T14:15:00.583Z It is necessary among the ruminants to make an exception of the camel and the llama, which are digitigrades. Artistic Anatomy of Animals 2011-12-17T03:00:16.893Z They suggest, further, a greater relative potency in the battle for life of the blood-globules of the small ruminants with this unknown rabific germ. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z Muffle, muf′l, n. the thick naked upper lip and nose, as of a ruminant. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z They are exceedingly timid, and therefore wary and difficult of approach; like many other ruminants, however, their curiosity sometimes overcomes their timidity, so as to bring them within range of the hunter’s rifle. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z For every pro-goat Portland, Ore., or Oakland, Calif., there’s been a Kansas City, Mo., or Minneapolis shutting the barn door on backyard ruminants. New kids on the block: Urban goats get mixed reception in different cities 2011-11-30T16:19:21Z The number of digits becomes diminished, so that in ruminants there are not more than two, and in the horse but one. Artistic Anatomy of Animals 2011-12-17T03:00:16.893Z In anthrax fever or acute internal anthrax there is loss of appetite, and, in ruminants, of rumination, suppression of milk, dulness, languor, staring coat, or even a rigor, and thirst. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z The antiquity of the ruminants shrouds their origin in obscurity. Natural History in Anecdote Illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., etc., etc. 2011-11-12T03:00:32.773Z GORAL, the native name of a small Himalayan rough-haired and cylindrical-horned ruminant classed in the same group as the chamois. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 2011-10-31T02:00:28.703Z But pandas are bears, a generally carnivorous family, and neither produce the enzymes necessary to digest cellulose nor harbor the same microbes as ruminants. Giant Pandas Beat Meat-Eating Heritage with Specialized Microbes 2011-10-17T23:15:07.043Z The division of the inferior extremity of the principal metacarpal into two parts is correlated with the two perfect digits which give the foot of the ruminant its forked appearance. Artistic Anatomy of Animals 2011-12-17T03:00:16.893Z Gerenuk are browsing ruminants, and, in Somaliland, are found in small family-parties, and feed more by browsing on the branches and leaves of trees and shrubs than by grazing. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" 2011-09-26T02:00:25.313Z The hollow-horned ruminants are divided into numerous sub-families, of which the Ox, the Antelope, the Sheep, and the Goat are the best known representatives. Natural History in Anecdote Illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., etc., etc. 2011-11-12T03:00:32.773Z "No painter ever concentrated so much life and truthful expression in the face of a ruminant," remarks a critic. The Standard Galleries - Holland 2011-09-06T02:00:08.153Z The high altitude, great cold and extreme depth of snow make it a forbidding habitat for the ruminants. Hunting in Many Lands The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club 2011-08-20T02:00:11.973Z The astragalus and the calcaneum differ slightly from those of ruminants. Artistic Anatomy of Animals 2011-12-17T03:00:16.893Z Neither your father nor I are caprine, hollow-horned ruminants. The Girls of Central High Rivals for All Honors 2011-08-11T02:00:17.153Z These are grouped as hollow-horned ruminants, this one touch of nature making the whole family kin. Natural History in Anecdote Illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., etc., etc. 2011-11-12T03:00:32.773Z Cattle and other ruminants, animals which "chew cud", may be key to renewable fuel A cow's stomach could hold the key to creating more environmentally friendly versions of petrol and diesel, according to Edinburgh scientists. Cows 'may offer greener fuel key' 2011-07-26T10:46:40Z Of such a syllogism as the one quoted— No predacious animals are ruminant, The lion is predacious, therefore The lion is not ruminant. A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning 2011-07-22T02:00:18.543Z The astragalus has not, as in ruminants, an inferior trochlea for articulation with the scaphoid; this portion of the bone presents a surface which is slightly convex. Artistic Anatomy of Animals 2011-12-17T03:00:16.893Z The tusks of the elephant, in the different species or races, differ according to sex, in nearly the same manner as the horns of ruminants. The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex Volume II (1st Edition) 2011-06-27T02:01:01.007Z Like cows, camels are ruminants, and the fermentation that takes place during their digestion causes them to belch and, er, otherwise emit methane — a lot of methane. Is Australia Going to Kill Camels for Carbon Credits? 2011-06-16T10:00:00Z Researchers are investigating how enzymes found in the stomachs of cattle and other ruminants, animals which "chew cud", could be used industrially. Cows 'may offer greener fuel key' 2011-07-26T10:46:40Z Example:— No predacious animals are ruminant, The lion is predacious, therefore The lion is not ruminant. A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning 2011-07-22T02:00:18.543Z These are, indeed, six or seven in number in the pig and in ruminants, and about ten in the horse. Artistic Anatomy of Animals 2011-12-17T03:00:16.893Z Hence with most sheath-horned ruminants the horns of the male are either longer or stronger than those of the female. The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex Volume II (1st Edition) 2011-06-27T02:01:01.007Z Methane production by ruminants is a large unknown, and is relevant in climate science as it is a powerful greenhouse gas. Cow methane proof 'is in the pat' 2011-06-08T10:55:35Z Humans cannot digest the tough material which makes up plants and trees but Ingenza and Prof Wallace said they expected to identify the enzymes in ruminants which allow for the breakdown of these structures. Cows 'may offer greener fuel key' 2011-07-26T10:46:40Z “The cucumber may be the lead back to the original ruminant that was the source,” Cobbold said in an interview from Gatton, Australia. E. Coli Sleuths May Find ‘Smoking Cow’ in Germ Source Hunt 2011-06-03T18:11:00Z It arises from this fossa; and, further, from the external surface of the cartilage which prolongs the scapula upwards in solipeds and ruminants. Artistic Anatomy of Animals 2011-12-17T03:00:16.893Z With ruminants the development of horns generally stands in an inverse relation with that of even moderately well-developed canine teeth. The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex Volume II (1st Edition) 2011-06-27T02:01:01.007Z Archaeol is a well-studied molecule found in the cell membranes of primitive single-celled organisms that live in the guts of ruminants such as cows, aiding their digestion. Cow methane proof 'is in the pat' 2011-06-08T10:55:35Z If we can identify novel enzymes that allow ruminants to break down these tough structures, and then replicate them on a large scale, the possibilities for more sustainable and renewable industrial practices are enormous. Cows 'may offer greener fuel key' 2011-07-26T10:46:40Z A generalised Miocene ruminant, with affinities to the Deer, Camel, and Hog. The Chain of Life in Geological Time A Sketch of the Origin and Succession of Animals and Plants 2011-06-01T02:00:24.880Z In solipeds and ruminants it is inserted, by a second fasciculus, into the small tuberosity. Artistic Anatomy of Animals 2011-12-17T03:00:16.893Z Cattle, sheep and other ruminant livestock produce large amounts of methane, which is about 20 times more powerful at trapping heat than carbon dioxide. Australia's burping cows more climate friendly than thought 2011-05-27T12:33:11Z Multiply that by the planet's 1.5 billion cattle and buffalo and 1.8 billion smaller ruminants and you have the methane equivalent of two billion tons of CO2 per year. For the Environment, Cow Flatulence Is No Laughing Matter 2011-04-04T06:45:35Z The waggons still stood about in the clearing; here and there the burly dark steers lay ruminant and half asleep among the stumps. The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains 2011-03-22T02:00:18.637Z The hollow-horned ruminants appear for the first time in America in the Lower Pliocene; and no ancestry has so far been attempted to be traced for them. The Chain of Life in Geological Time A Sketch of the Origin and Succession of Animals and Plants 2011-06-01T02:00:24.880Z There is also found in ruminants two imperfect rudimentary digits, which are represented by two small bones situated behind the articulation of the metacarpal and the digits which we have just been studying. Artistic Anatomy of Animals 2011-12-17T03:00:16.893Z Many of these latter, like the cow, are ruminants--that is, they bring up their food to chew it over again at their leisure. Makers of Modern Medicine 2011-03-05T03:00:29.580Z Since nobody is going to re-engineer the ruminant digestive tract anytime soon, the solutions are limited: stop eating meat or at least eat other kinds. For the Environment, Cow Flatulence Is No Laughing Matter 2011-04-04T06:45:35Z These fractures are analogous to those of human action observed on bones from the glacial period, and identical with those made by northern tribes of the present day, on the skulls of ruminants. A Manual of the Antiquity of Man 2011-02-21T03:00:07.080Z Of the ruminants, or cud-chewing animals, of Africa, the giraffe is a most beautiful yet peculiar specimen. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z The bones of the tarsus are not seven in all animals; they are fewer in ruminants and solipeds. Artistic Anatomy of Animals 2011-12-17T03:00:16.893Z The tongue is short and soft, and the stomach large and complex, bearing some resemblance to that of ruminants. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" 2011-01-19T03:00:19.027Z The males of some ruminants come to the front when there is danger and defend the herd with their horns. The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. I 2011-01-17T03:00:49.523Z Livestock farming drives emissions of the greenhouse gas methane, from the stomachs of ruminants and especially cattle, and of carbon dioxide by increasing deforestation. Meat diets pose environmental danger: report 2010-10-05T16:33:00Z Burping cows add to climate change; feeding them oregano might help When cows and other ruminants digest their food, methane builds up in their rumen, the largest chamber of their four-chambered stomach. SCIENCE NEWS 2010-09-21T04:00:00Z Owing to the absence of superior incisors in ruminants, the intermaxillary bone presents no alveoli. Artistic Anatomy of Animals 2011-12-17T03:00:16.893Z The most secure source of milk in such circumstances will be the dairy farm supplying its ruminants with grazed grass and clover for a very large part of the year. Industrialised farming will not make us more self-sufficient 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z The ruminants are eminently polygamous, and they 267more frequently present sexual differences than almost any other group of mammals, especially in their weapons, but likewise in other characters. The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. I 2011-01-17T03:00:49.523Z By actively planning and managing the grazing and recovery of the plants as opposed to allowing continuous grazing, ruminants become part of the solution rather than a burden to the land. A Revolutionary Idea About Cattle Ranching 2010-09-07T18:55:00Z Microbes known as methanogens help the ruminants get rid of the excess hydrogen by producing methane gases that the animals release into the atmosphere. Gatton Journal: Trying to Stop Cattle Burps From Heating Up Planet 2010-07-14T02:39:00Z In the pig and in ruminants, in which the trapezius approaches more closely to the head, the mastoido-humeral occupies, in consequence, a less extent of the cervical region. Artistic Anatomy of Animals 2011-12-17T03:00:16.893Z The bacterium lives in the guts of ruminant farm animals such as cattle, sheep and goats and is transmitted through contact with their feces. Petting farm E.coli bug "could have been avoided" 2010-06-15T13:53:00Z As we've discussed before, raising a milk-bearing animal generates a significant amount of greenhouse gases, thanks in large part to the methane those ruminants emit. 2009-12-15T05:00:00Z Keeling over when frightened by a potential predator is not the most desirable trait in a small ruminant, so it is easy to see why fainting goats became an endangered breed. 2010-01-07T18:35:00Z The Bovidae or hollow-horned ruminants, are represented by several genera of antelopes, and by species of true Bos—such as B. sondaicus, B. frontalis and B. bubalus. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" Characterizing the different groups by circumstances connected with their organization, he arranges quadrupeds into those which have undivided hoofs, as the horse; those having cleft hoofs, of which some are ruminant, others not. Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History It has ravaged among big African ruminants on an even more extensive scale than among these North American rodents. A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open Anoplothe�rium, an extinct genus of the Ungulata or Hoofed Quadrupeds, forming the type of a distinct family, which were in many respects intermediate between the swine and the true ruminants. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli There were no apes, no ruminants, no lions, tigers, or wolves. Under the Southern Cross or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and Other Pacific Islands A peculiar form of baboon, Cynopithecus, and the singular ruminant, Anoa, found in Celebes, seem to have no relation to Asiatic animals, and rather to be allied to those in Africa. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" Of the unguiculate animals, some are ruminant, with two claws only, as the camel; others are carnivorous, with more numerous claws, as cats, dogs, polecats. Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History Most of the groups of big ruminants commonly called "antelopes" are now confined to Africa; but it appears that formerly various representatives of them reached America. A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open They are all small or medium-sized mountain ruminants, for the most part European and Asiatic, but with one North American representative. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" Of the ruminants, Brazil has only four or five species of Cervidae, which are likewise common to other countries of South America. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" His mouth moves sideways like that of a ruminant; you would imagine he was masticating a piece of tough steak. John Bull, Junior or French as She is Traduced But the one group, I mean the savants, are ordinary ruminants, that is, slow and clumsy. Underground Man They saw no animal like that strange creature, the African giraffe; and several kinds of deer took the place of the varied species of bovine ruminants which, in popular parlance, we group together as antelopes. A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open As already stated, there is a possibility of this latter ruminant being allied both to the takin and the musk-ox. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" CHAMOIS, the Franco-Swiss name of an Alpine ruminant known in the German cantons as Gemse, and to naturalists as Rupicapra tragus or R. rupicapra tragus. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" From the same stratum, also, they drew up the lower half of the humerus of a ruminant, at first referred to a hyæna. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology The others have the peculiar quality of being at once ruminants and nimble, like the antelope. Underground Man At the same time there need be no objection to the view that the especial capacity of ruminants and other herbivora for domestication is connected with the use of the word in this place. The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science He spoke ruminantly between pulls at the pipe. Ewing\\'s Lady Thus, the human being is successively a monad, an a-vertebrated animal, an osseous fish, a turtle, a bird, a ruminant, a mammal, and lastly an infant Man. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4. This system functionally resembles that in the ruminants where a cud of vegetation is returned to the mouth, from one part of the stomach, to be re-chewed and finally swallowed. A Synopsis of the North American Lagomorpha All the jaws were going like those of so many ruminants grazing in a field. A Frenchman in America Recollections of Men and Things It includes all the true ruminants, with the coney, the hare, and the hog, animals of the rodent and pachydermatous orders. The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science Billy Bumps lifted a ruminant head and blatted softly. The Corner House Girls in a Play How they rehearsed, how they acted, and what the play brought in The typical genus Tragulus, which is Asiatic, contains the smallest representatives of the family, the animals having more of the general aspects and habits of some rodents, such as the agoutis, than of other ruminants. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" It was that of a steady grinding of a ruminant animal feeding. With Ethan Allen at Ticonderoga But when she had discovered that the object in question was a vessel and not a bovine ruminant, her mind carried her no farther than to a pleasure boat with a sail to it. Mrs. Cliff's Yacht The knees of those species which frequently kneel, such as camels and other ruminants, are apt to become bare and hard-skinned. Was Man Created? Sheep, goats, and other ruminants may also be infested with it. Special Report on Diseases of Cattle Back in geologic time we had a ruminant with four horns, two on the nose and two on the crown, and they were real, permanent, bony growths. Under the Maples It was the dry and broken hoof of some ruminant animal–an ox, perhaps, for it was too large for any deer that Enoch had ever seen. With Ethan Allen at Ticonderoga All these, from their practice of "chewing the cud," are called "ruminants," and they are multitudinous in kinds. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 This occurs in ruminants, stags, fowls, and other animals, as well as in some human beings; for example, the Islamites, negroes, American Indians, Mormons, etc. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study While certain substances like tannic acid and potassium permanganate are the logical antidotes for plant poisons, in practical application they are very disappointing in the treatment of ruminant animals. Special Report on Diseases of Cattle In the immense prairies where these ruminants feed, a few Indians covered by bisons’ skins advance on all fours, so that nothing betrays their presence. The Industries of Animals We saw hornéd monsters become gentle ruminants, and heard the scream of the pterodactyl on the tree-tops dwindle to child's laughter. Melomaniacs For some time longer, Clara sat in silence with her old friend, who lit his after-luncheon pipe and sat cross-legged, blinking and ruminant. Mummery A Tale of Three Idealists Thus cows, like most other ruminants, properly have four active and two rudimentary mamm�; but in our domesticated animals, the latter occasionally become considerably developed and yield milk. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) Loss of cud.—The so-called loss of cud is simply a cessation of rumination, frequently one of the first indications of some form of disease, since ruminants stop chewing the cud when they feel sick. Special Report on Diseases of Cattle "He has a fine forehead, and if one likes beards, his is certainly a handsome specimen," said Aunt Helen ruminantly, as we were driving home. A Romantic Young Lady It is peculiar to ruminants, who have one large stomach, in which the food is kept as a kind of reservoir until it is ready for the action of the other stomachs. Delineations of the Ox Tribe The Natural History of Bulls, Bisons, and Buffaloes. Exhibiting all the Known Species and the More Remarkable Varieties of the Genus Bos. With the dumb placidity of some ruminant, Avery was sitting in his same place on the platform of the emporium. Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 Thy judges sit, Gods ruminant, to keep Earth pure for dulcet sleep Of babe and mother. Path Flower and Other Verses But perhaps the best case for comparison with the ruminants is that of the rhinoceroses. More Science From an Easy Chair In all ruminants, the food, when swallowed, passes into the first stomach; it is then brought up to be chewed again; this is called 'chewing the cud.' Adventures of a Young Naturalist Those ruminants which are classed under the generic name of Ox, may be very naturally divided into two distinct groups. Delineations of the Ox Tribe The Natural History of Bulls, Bisons, and Buffaloes. Exhibiting all the Known Species and the More Remarkable Varieties of the Genus Bos. With a queerness amounting to perversity some gentle, fawn-like, ruminant woman had borne her. The Creators A Comedy The trees consisted chiefly of mimosas—of several species, upon the leaves, roots, and tender shoots of which the great ruminant loves to browse. Popular Adventure Tales In fact, so predominant are the vegetative functions of the ruminants over their nervous attributes, that the only essential conditions of their existence are adequate supplies of good air and food. The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock It is a ruminant, or an animal which has three or four stomachs. Adventures of a Young Naturalist It is an interesting fact that an almost similar conformation characterizes, as I have been informed by Dr. Falconer, the extinct and gigantic Sivatherium of India, and is not known in any other ruminant. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. The giraffe, for instance, is a ruminant whose entire frame has been adapted to support an enormously long neck, which is of use to the animal in reaching the foliage of trees. Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions Now, it is a singular fact that an almost similar structure to the abnormal one of the niata breed characterises the great extinct ruminant of India—the sivatherium. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America The placid ruminants live—the conquerors have conquered nothing. Greener Than You Think This gave her a slow, ruminant look, distinctly attractive. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance "You needn't show temper," he said slowly, with the air of a young ruminant animal. Shining Ferry On the other hand, progressive modifications of the artiodactyl feet may be traced geologically up to the different stages presented by living ruminants, in some of which it has proceeded further than in others. Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions The numerous species of ruminant animals—the antelope in particular—are the especial objects of their pursuit, and upon these they subsist. Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys The ruminants, resigned, nibble at the edges of their death, converting death to life, chewing, swallowing, digesting, regurgitating and digesting again inescapable fate. Greener Than You Think Helen tarried, while again, glancing in the direction of the door, he encountered Lady Constance's mild, ruminant stare. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Besides, it is the largest ruminant indigenous to America, exceeding in weight even the moose-deer, which latter, however, equals it in height. The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire A few ruminants showed themselves, amongst others some wapiti, but they dashed past with such speed that it was impossible to get near them. Godfrey Morgan A Californian Mystery First, then, of the number of these ruminants—that is, the number of kinds. Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys Some herbivorous animals, especially among the ruminants, have been incessantly preyed upon by carnivorous animals, against which their only refuge is in flight. Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin Her innocent stare lost its ruminant quality, became alarmed, tearful even, while she instinctively edged her chair closer to her father's. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Faint and feeble, the ruminant at length totters and falls, and the fierce destroyer squats itself along the body, and finishes its red repast. The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire In a very short time Rifle had finished his meal, and looked at their man German, who was seated a little way apart munching away at bread and cheese like a two-legged ruminant. The Dingo Boys The Squatters of Wallaby Range A black bear and a cougar arrived next; and fierce beasts of prey and gentle ruminants stood side by side, both terrified out of their natural habits. The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse And, contrariwise, there is tripe—“the stomach of the ox or of some other ruminant.” A Book of Burlesques It seemed to Richard that the girl's small, round chin quivered a little, and that a look of vague distress invaded her soft, ruminant, wide-set eyes. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance "I wouldn't, Joyce," she said in her ruminant tone. Joyce's Investments A Story for Girls The stomachs of ruminant animals excited his interest, and he described their structure. Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine Nearly all the ruminant animals can outrun him. The Bush Boys History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his Family So, too, at the second or third month the uterus of the human embryo is bicornuate, and afterwards passes through stages comparable to the adult and permanent uterus of rodents, ruminants, and carnivores. Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology To every one else I am an embarrassment, a more or less distressing curiosity."—He met little Lady Constance Quale's ruminant stare again in imagination, heard Lord Fallowfeild's blundering speech.—"Remember our luncheon to-day. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance It has been suggested that Voltaire, in speaking of red sheep, referred to the llama, a South American ruminant allied to the camel. Candide Blyth thinks that this sac is affected by the amorous season, as in the case of the infra-orbital cavities of various ruminants and analogous glandular follicles in other animals. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon The trees consisted chiefly of mimosas—of several species; upon the leaves, roots, and tender shoots of which the great ruminant loves to browse. The Bush Boys History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his Family For example, ungulates which do not ruminate, and have not a cloven hoof, have a more perfect dentition and more bones in the foot than the true cloven-hoofed ruminants. Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology Courant clasped his hands behind his head and gazed ruminantly before him. The Emigrant Trail Do you know," put in her sister ruminantly, "there's ever so much difference between being dressed up and well dressed. All Aboard A Story for Girls The four-horned antelope is described accurately by Mr. Sterndale, only that, in my humble opinion, I do not consider it to be the smallest of the ruminant species. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon It is upon the open plains—where the great ruminants love to roam, and among the low bushy thickets that skirt them, that the lion affects to dwell. The Bush Boys History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his Family This correlation is a graded one, for camels, which have a more perfect dentition than other ruminants, have also a bone more in their tarsus. Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology Nearby, sitting on the dropped tongue of a wagon, a girl of perhaps sixteen, sat ruminant, nursing a baby. The Emigrant Trail The hillocky back of that lone ruminant grew black as ink in the glow of sunset. The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story The flesh of this species is among the best of the wild ruminants. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon "What a bore for the wolves to have to live opposite a cow!" and then, as if talking to herself, "I do hate a ruminant!" Some Diversions of a Man of Letters For example, it is due to causation that ruminants are herbivorous. Logic Deductive and Inductive The country-folk are a patient lot; most of them ruminants, like their own oxen. Spanish Life in Town and Country Robes.—Ordinarily the skin of a large ruminant is of little value in comparison with the bulk of toothsome flesh it covers. The Extermination of the American Bison This little antelope, the smallest of Indian hollow-horned ruminants, is very shy and difficult to get, even in jungles where it abounds. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon The sabre-toothed lion has gone the way of all flesh; the deinotherium and the colossal ruminants of the Pliocene Age no longer browse beside the banks of Seine. Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science Their instincts make them crop the herb, and their stomachs enable them easily to digest it; and in these characters camels are like the other ruminants. Logic Deductive and Inductive Good butting, O excellent ruminant, wherever thou should chance to be. Biltmore Oswald The Diary of a Hapless Recruit The buffaloes rank amongst ruminants.—With the American people, and through them all others, familiarity with the buffalo has bred contempt. The Extermination of the American Bison These comprise the oxen, and wind up the hollow-horned ruminants as far as India is concerned. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon One of the long-haired ruminant men stood up, and a young fellow, amid much nudging and giggling among the scorners, was also forced from his chair. The Bread-winners A Social Study Meanwhile we may be tolerably sure that, besides the species enumerated, Mount Zagros contains within its folds some large and rare ruminant. The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 3. (of 7): Media The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. Thus research into the history of the past did, to a certain extent, tend to fill up the breach between the group of ruminants and the group of pigs. American Addresses, with a Lecture on the Study of Biology Ruth repeated the word, not in the effect of a query, but ruminantly. The Ragged Edge Of the horned ruminants these are the most interesting. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon The wild animals include the tiger, panther, leopard, bear, sable, otter, monkey, wolf, fox, twenty-seven or more species of ruminants, and numerous species of rodents. Myths and Legends of China "Pleased with yourself, aren't you?" she inquired, more to make conversation which might engage the ancient mind in ruminant pastime than to begin any series of inquiries into Pa's mental states. Nocturne The camels, who appeared to have lost themselves, did not gallop away like the horses, but came forward and peaceably watched the cavalcade passing, absent-minded, bored ruminants, with something always on their minds. Sister Teresa Thus there are in ruminants rudiments of incisor teeth which, in some species, never cut through the gums; many lizards have external rudimentary legs; while many birds, as the Apteryx, have quite rudimentary wings. Darwinism (1889) I have known even ruminants eat meat, and in their case hunger could not have been urged as an excuse. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon In this room, however, the visitor will notice the progress of early creation—first, the zoophytes; then the fish lizards; then the fossil ruminants; then the fossil carnivora. How to See the British Museum in Four Visits In some nook or on some crag of the square leagues of desert that swell around him a troop of the desiderated ruminants is grazing, if grazing it can be called where grass is none. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 We call the cow a ruminant because she chews the cud. Quiet Talks on Prayer These differ from all other ruminants in possessing solid deciduous horns which are always more or less branched. Darwinism (1889) The camels and llamas possess two cutting teeth in the upper jaw, and in this respect they differ from the true ruminants, as also in some internal features. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon The fact is," answered Nicholl, "that oxen, cows, bulls, and horses, all those ruminants would be useful on the lunar continent. The Moon-Voyage He had done that and was ruminantly filling his pipe when something drew his gaze to one of the side windows. The Lilac Girl No evidence exists to show that any bird has gradually passed into an animal, nor a carnivorous beast become ruminant, or vice versâ. Creation and Its Records These too were the only notes of happiness; for their grown-up relatives, especially the women, carried an air, if not an actual expression, of animal melancholy, the melancholy of driven sheep or of cows ruminant. Kimono The takin is a large, heavily-built ruminant, about 3 feet 6 inches high at the shoulder and 6 feet in total length. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon The breakfast began with three cups of excellent broth, due to the liquefaction in hot water of three precious Liebig tablets, prepared from the choicest morsels of the Pampas ruminants. The Moon-Voyage They had domesticated ruminants, and not only practised agriculture, but had learned the value of irrigation. Critiques and Addresses There is no broken glass, there are no painful bottoms of bottles to disturb my ruminant quiet. Nancy The family tree is usually headed by a decrepit and ruminant old gentleman in a species of yachting-cap. All in It : K(1) Carries On A Continuation of the First Hundred Thousand The hollow-horned ruminants are those which bear a persistent sheath of horn on a bony core; the others bear solid antlers which are periodically shed, and grow afresh. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon He had lighted his pipe by this time, and was smoking and staring at the fire with his usual stolid air—meditative, it might be, or only ruminant, like one of his own cattle. Fenton's Quest They do not suffer from an ennui, which society can remove, because their coarse feeding and their ruminant habits make them somewhat stolid. Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development The foreground of the picture would have been filled by the rhinoceros and mammoth, the great herds of ruminants, the sabre-toothed lion and the big bears. An Englishman Looks at the World You could not imagine him, like the yellow-eyed ruminant next to him, sitting and waiting ruthlessly for things to happen. Jimgrim and Allah's Peace I have also known ruminants take to flesh-eating when opportunity offered. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Formerly, but within the period when most of the now existing shells were living, North America possessed, besides hollow-horned ruminants, the elephant, mastodon, horse, and three genera of Edentata, namely, the Megatherium, Megalonyx, and Mylodon. The Voyage of the Beagle Out upon the plain grazed numerous herds of wild ruminants. Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar The breakfast began with three bowls of excellent soup, thanks to the liquefaction in hot water of those precious cakes of Liebig, prepared from the best parts of the ruminants of the Pampas. From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon And all the day long, while they were absent, the cattle, too, made their pilgrimage, straggling in singly, in pairs, in bunches, in long files, leisurely, ruminantly, without haste. Arizona Nights The sweetbreads of ruminants, esp. of the calf, are highly esteemed as food. The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section S Instantly both he and his mate leaped for the long neck of the ruminant. Pellucidar On the other hand the quantity of ruminants and the variety and frequency of carnivorous animals increased. The Land That Time Forgot Beyond it we heard loud bellowings such as a troop of ruminants would produce. Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea Marriage, which was to bring guidance into worthy and imperative occupation, had not yet freed her from the gentlewoman's oppressive liberty: it had not even filled her leisure with the ruminant joy of unchecked tenderness. Middlemarch Sir," said he, "you behold in me a deserted and therefore doleful ruminant chewing reflection's solitary cud. The Amateur Gentleman The bulls, especially when old, continued to be somewhat unreliable; but the cows and oxen, on the other hand, were as gentle and docile as any ruminant could be. Freeland A Social Anticipation She dropped onto the side of the bed, watching her sister, with her head tilted, her eye dreamily ruminant. Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California There is no more reason, however, for concluding that it was the primitive dog, than for conferring on the Indian cattle the same honour among the ruminants. The Dog "Well, well!" came Mrs. Eli Pike's ruminant voice from the crowd. Meadow Grass Tales of New England Life Still they were fortunate enough to kill two of the large American ruminants, seldom met with in such elevated latitudes. The Fur Country Seventy Degrees North Latitude Yes, yes," she went on, the old ruminant, "he hath a rare twist for women, if they speak the truth who know him. The Forest Lovers Yet it would not be an anomaly if an excess of caseine in proportion to the other substances was a true characteristic of ruminants. Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883 The surface of the incisors presents, as in the ruminants, an interior and cutting edge, and a hollow or depression within. The Dog The complicated stomach of ruminants predispose them to diseases of this portion of the digestive tract. Common Diseases of Farm Animals We allude to the reindeer; and Corporal Joliffe announced with the greatest satisfaction that there were plenty of these ruminants on this coast. The Fur Country Seventy Degrees North Latitude Now, Dr. Condereau has demonstrated recently that the stomach of the pig has a rudimentary organization recalling that of the ruminants. Scientific American Supplement, No. 303, October 22, 1881 She liked, too, to call at the cottage for mother and child, and take them for long rambling drives behind her ruminant pony. The Nest Builder On the pampas there is, strictly speaking, only one ruminant, the Cervus campestris, which is common. The Naturalist in La Plata In ruminants, the wool or hair may form balls and obstruct the opening into the third compartment, causing chronic indigestion and death. Common Diseases of Farm Animals The large ruminants of the polar districts—the buffaloes or bisons, the flesh of which forms almost the only food of the Canadian and native hunters—seldom go further north than the Great Slave Lake. The Fur Country Seventy Degrees North Latitude Ten years ago this plague broke out in the Jardin d'Acclimatation; not a ruminant escaped, and also one animal not of that class, a little tenant nearly related to the pig—the peccari. Scientific American Supplement, No. 303, October 22, 1881 If one had as many stomachs as a ruminant, he would not mind three or four serious meals a day, not counting the tea as one of them. Our Hundred Days in Europe Horns belong only to the ruminants, and the spur is a rare weapon. The Naturalist in La Plata Give the causes of indigestion of the stomach of ruminants. Common Diseases of Farm Animals No human footprints gladdened the eyes of the travellers, the only traces on the sandy soil were those of ruminants and rodents. The Fur Country Seventy Degrees North Latitude Further, that plague only attacks ruminant animals—oxen, goats, sheep, zebras, gazelles, etc. Scientific American Supplement, No. 303, October 22, 1881 The streets, too, seem to be narrower and more congested than those in any other city; so that it is often embarrassingly difficult to treat the approaching ruminants with the respect due to them. Roving East and Roving West For example, "all ruminants are horned" is a proposition which may be upset by the single instance of the camel. The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; the Art of Controversy Give the treatment for the different forms of indigestion of the stomach of ruminants. Common Diseases of Farm Animals He who holds a professorship may be said to receive his food in the stall; and this is the best way with ruminant animals. The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; The Art of Literature The stomach is always more or less complex; at its extreme reaching the ruminant type with four compartments, in association with which is a caecum reduced in size and simple in form. American Big Game in Its Haunts Monona, who had previously hidden a cooky in her frock, now remembered it and crunched sidewise, the eyes ruminant. Miss Lulu Bett Arthur Pym has compared the antarctic turtles to dromedaries, because, like those ruminants, they have a pouch just where the neck begins, which contains from two to three gallons of cold fresh water. An Antarctic Mystery We prefer the administration of oil or aloes to horses, Glauber's or Epsom salts to ruminants, and calomel to dogs. Common Diseases of Farm Animals The temperate regions of the whole world might be made to yield specimens of the noble ruminant, valuable either for their individual beauty, or for their availability to gastronomic purposes. The Book of Household Management Most split-hoofed animals are ruminants, but there is a small remnant, probably of early types, which are not. American Big Game in Its Haunts That of the ruminants, however, is so clearly marked out, that we detect it at a glance. The History of a Mouthful of Bread And its effect on the organization of men and animals For ought that can be inferred from the premisses, sheep may or may not be ruminants. Deductive Logic A depraved appetite is met with in all species of farm animals, but it is especially common in ruminants. Common Diseases of Farm Animals In some pigs and ruminants it grows into a thread-like, long and thin tube. The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 At all hours of the day the Muffet jaws, like the jaws of a ruminant, were steadily munching, munching. This Freedom Now, this is precisely what the ruminant does. The History of a Mouthful of Bread And its effect on the organization of men and animals Thus when we say 'All cows are ruminants,' we may mean that the class, cow, is contained in the larger class, ruminant. Deductive Logic Name the different compartments of the ruminant's stomach. Common Diseases of Farm Animals These groups must be considered separately, because the variations in mind and temperament are quite well marked; but beyond wisdom in self-preservation, I do not regard the intelligence of wild ruminants as being really great. The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations Then each camel was made to store as much water as its stomachs would hold, for a camel, like all ruminants, has four stomachs. Rataplan, a rogue elephant; and other stories The real fact is, that ruminants with horns and without upper canines have more delicate flesh than the others, and seem more especially destined to be eaten. The History of a Mouthful of Bread And its effect on the organization of men and animals If someone were to say 'Cows are ruminants,' you would have a right to ask him whether he meant 'all cows' or only 'some.' Deductive Logic Give the capacity of the stomach of ruminants. Common Diseases of Farm Animals Because of this unfortunate condition, the study of ruminants in captivity does not yield a great crop of results. The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations In fact, they subsisted almost entirely upon that great ruminant. The Great Salt Lake Trail Yet if one had only to look at the stomach, which is, after all, the distinctive characteristic of the order, camels and llamas would stand in the first rank as ruminants. The History of a Mouthful of Bread And its effect on the organization of men and animals But the proposition admits of being read in another form, namely, 'That no member of the class, horse, is a member of the class, ruminant.' Deductive Logic What is the capacity and length of large intestine of solipeds and ruminants? Common Diseases of Farm Animals Of all the ruminant animals I know intimately, the white mountain goat is the philosopher-in-chief. The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations His opinion was fixed; he was a placid ruminant. Hilda Wade, a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose The ruminant, whose peaceful mouth is formed for contending only with grass, is organized quite differently. The History of a Mouthful of Bread And its effect on the organization of men and animals Many of them are nocturnal in their habits; others conceal themselves underground; and those ruminants whose social life and migrations offer the greatest interest do not let man approach their herds. Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution The different species of ruminants possess a large, complicated stomach, and comparatively simple intestines. Common Diseases of Farm Animals The free wild animals are far better subjects, and it is from them that we have derived our best knowledge of ruminant thoughts and ways. The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations The ruminants evolved in the Old World, and it was not until the later Miocene that the ancestors of the antelope and of some deer found their way to North America. The Elements of Geology Stags, goats, reindeer, chamois, gazelles, roebucks, oxen, buffaloes, all the beasts with horned foreheads, belong to the ruminants. The History of a Mouthful of Bread And its effect on the organization of men and animals However, it is especially with the rodents, the ungulata, and the ruminants that we find a highly developed practice of mutual aid. Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution The early symptoms in ruminants are not usually recognized until a day or two after retention of the urine has occurred. Common Diseases of Farm Animals Intellectually the ruminants are not as high as the apes and monkeys, bears, wolves, foxes and dogs, the domestic horses and the elephants. The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations So far as recording in what locality the inoffensive ruminant had just tasted her last tuft of herbage, nothing can be easier. Robur the Conqueror Some ruminants have no horns; and then, as if in compensation for the deficiency, we find them provided with canines in the upper jaw, in addition to those below. The History of a Mouthful of Bread And its effect on the organization of men and animals With these are associated a monkey, allied to the Semnopithecus entellus, now living in the Himalaya, and many ruminants. The Student's Elements of Geology Photograph of model of digestive tract of ruminant. Common Diseases of Farm Animals This condition closes to the ruminants the possibility of a long program of activities which the ruminant brain might otherwise develop. The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations "Where is he?" asked the father, with his ruminant quiet, pulling off first one sleeve of his overcoat, and pausing for Eunice's answer before he pulled off the other. April Hopes It was by the taming of the domestic ruminants—that unfailing dinner-material which now follows everywhere at the heels of his master—that human civilisation began. The History of a Mouthful of Bread And its effect on the organization of men and animals These were associated with the Anoplotherium, a tribe intermediate between pachyderms and ruminants. The Student's Elements of Geology There is a remarkable difference in the development of the stomachs of solipeds and ruminants. Common Diseases of Farm Animals Most captive ruminants struggle frantically when put into crates for shipment. The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations The discovery, however, of polished flint hatchets, diorite lance-heads, and a few bones of ruminants and cerviae unknown in Spain in prehistoric times, would appear to point to a very considerable antiquity. Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples It is thirty years ago since this happened, and I own, without any false modesty, that even now the word ruminant rings very agreeably in my ear. The History of a Mouthful of Bread And its effect on the organization of men and animals There were the usual early loafers at the station, hands deep in pockets, ruminant, listlessly observant. Their Pilgrimage The third, fourth and fifth years are indicated by the replacement of the temporary nippers, dividers and corners in the horse, and the first and second dividers and corner teeth in ruminants. Common Diseases of Farm Animals In the actual practice of herd leadership in species of ruminant animals, the largest and most spectacular bull elk or bison is not always the leader. The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations Dr. Spring noticed at Chauvaux a great many bones which were nearly all those of women and children, side by side with which lay others of ruminants belonging to species still extant. Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples And now, let us return to our ruminants—those dear, good beasts, the nourishing fathers of the human race. The History of a Mouthful of Bread And its effect on the organization of men and animals This might have endured until he returned to earth had not the airman stopped the engines so that they drifted ruminantly in space below the clouds. The Burning Spear The ruminant's incisors at this age all show wear. Common Diseases of Farm Animals A more common form of infantile ruminant sport is racing and jumping. The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations Thus cows, like most other ruminants, properly have four active and two rudimentary mamma; but in our domesticated animals, the latter occasionally become considerably developed and yield milk. The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 2 To ruminate is to chew over again what has been already swallowed; and, however droll this may seem to you, it is the business which all ruminants are born to. The History of a Mouthful of Bread And its effect on the organization of men and animals It is an interesting fact that an almost similar confirmation characterizes, as I am informed by Dr. Falconer, the extinct and gigantic Sivatherium of India, and is not known in any other ruminant. The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 1 The two-year-old colt shows a well-worn set of incisor teeth, and the ruminant at this age has replaced the nippers or centrals. Common Diseases of Farm Animals Besides, if Nature had intended that men should sleep outdoors in winter, with the moose and caribou, we would have been furnished with ruminant pelage and fat. The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations Beyond it heaved an arid bulk of hillside, the scant vegetation of which, scattered like patches of hair, made it look like the decaying hide of some huge antediluvian ruminant. A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's and Other Stories The ruminant has other workmen under him, whom I keep in store for you as the last of the eaters, and who prepare the raw material for him*. The History of a Mouthful of Bread And its effect on the organization of men and animals Thus, research into the history of the past did, to a certain extent, tend to fill up the breach between the group of ruminants and the group of pigs. Lectures on Evolution In ruminants, all of the chisel-shaped table surfaces of the incisors show considerable wear when the animal is five years old. Common Diseases of Farm Animals With the keen intelligence of the wounded wild ruminant, he chose the line of least resistance, and on three legs fled downhill. The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations I remembered the rancho,—a low, golden-brown, adobe-walled quadrangle, sleeping like some monstrous ruminant in a hollow of the Contra Costa Range. Stories in Light and Shadow The ruminant which has the most beautiful canines is the musk-deer, a pretty little animal inhabiting the highlands of Central Asia, like the chamois of the Alps. The History of a Mouthful of Bread And its effect on the organization of men and animals Everything is cow-y,—slow and sure, firm, but not fast, kindly, sunny, ruminant, heavy, lumbering, basking, content. Gala-days In ruminants, the villi are grouped at certain points. Common Diseases of Farm Animals The tusks of the elephant, in the different species or races, differ according to sex, nearly as do the horns of ruminants. The Descent of Man To this invasion of the Pecora, or true ruminants, it seems probable that the decline and eventual disappearance of the camels is to be ascribed. Darwin and Modern Science I shall retain through life a pleasant recollection of the ruminants. The History of a Mouthful of Bread And its effect on the organization of men and animals Where the Bee, that delicate organism, succumbs in less than half an hour, the Grasshopper, coarse ruminant that he is, resists for a whole day. The Life of the Spider Name the divisions of small and large intestines of solipeds and ruminants. Common Diseases of Farm Animals With ruminants the development of horns generally stands in an inverse relation with that of even moderately developed canine teeth. The Descent of Man The grinding teeth, by equally gradual steps, take on the ruminant pattern. Darwin and Modern Science The whole history, then, of the ruminant is to be read in his stomach. The History of a Mouthful of Bread And its effect on the organization of men and animals It opened its social gates to him and shut him in on a close-cropped, formal lawn with the select herd of ruminants. The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million In the horse the retention is recognized at an earlier period than in ruminants, because of the prompt, decided symptom of pain. Common Diseases of Farm Animals Canine teeth in man, diminution of, in man; diminution of, in horses; disappearance of, in male ruminants; large in the early progenitors of man. The Descent of Man The Palaeotheres were more or less between the horse and the tapir in structure; the Anoplotheres between the tapir and the ruminant. The Story of Evolution The ruminant has an immense pouch of the same kind, into which, while he is grazing, he hastily conveys large masses of half-bitten grass. The History of a Mouthful of Bread And its effect on the organization of men and animals Describe the symptoms of infectious ophthalmia of ruminants and the treatment. Common Diseases of Farm Animals Retention of the urine commonly terminates in rupture of the bladder in ruminants. Common Diseases of Farm Animals The ruminants are eminently polygamous, and they present sexual differences more frequently than almost any other group of mammals; this holds good, especially in their weapons, but also in other characters. The Descent of Man Chevrotains flourished in Europe and North America in the Oligocene, and are still very primitive in structure, combining features of the hog and the ruminants. The Story of Evolution |
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