Talk:Ruminant
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- Ruminants are the world's second biggest producers of methane, which is considered to be an extremelly efficient greenhouse gas when free in the atmosphere. Maybe there should be something on this topic in the article. See Natural gas and Methane.
Ruminants contains different components to their digestive systems than monogastrics, it is made up of a mouth, oesophagus, crop, stomach, gizzard, small intestine, caecum, large intestine and anus.
[edit] Camels
Are we sure camels chew a cud? (Ruminate). My confusion lies with how Camels are apparently not kosher, yet they have cleft hooves, and here it's claimed they Ruminate. Is there a difference between being a Ruminant and chewing a cud? njaard 21:38, 25 September 2005 (UTC)
The glucose concentration in the rumen is vanishingly small (many many literature souces vouch for this). Rather, cellulose is broken down primarily into acetic acid, propionic acid and butyric acid in the rumen. Could someone with a better facility for the English Language please correct this asap. Please contact me if you would like to know more of the physiology of the rumen (studying this is part of my job). Otherwise, camels do chew cud. Some other mammals chew cud but are not strictly ruminants.(comments by User:Dalekmikey|talk)
Camels hooves are only partialy cleft, they need to be totally seperate to be kosher... maybe a GE camel could be ok? lol212.42.10.194 15:12, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
