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Okay, ruminants. Sheep are a common ruminant. A ruminant is an important thing to know because
they are most of our domestic livestock, our ruminants. The major way to tell a ruminant
is exactly what all of these sheep are doing right now. They have all ready eaten this
morning, they've consumed large quantities of hay large for their body size but if you
look at all of them, are still chewing. They are not actively eating now but they are still
chewing. Because what they did was they ate a lot of hay earlier today and that hay went
into their ruminant or their first segment of their stomach and now they cough it back
up and they chew it again. Then it goes into the next three segments of the stomach. A
ruminant is defined as having four stomachs or four segments to their stomach. And the
most important thing about being a ruminant is that they can survive on grass. As humans,
we would not be able to survive if we ate nothing but grass but ruminants because of
that digestive system in which they essentially ferment their food, they are able to survive
by consuming a quality of feed that would not maintain the rest of us. And by chewing
their cud, they are able to do magic things with basic cellulose.