Ruminantia
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| Ruminantia includes many of the well-known large grazing or browsing mammals: among them cattle, goats, sheep, deer, and antelope. All members of the Ruminantia are ruminants: they digest food in two steps, chewing and swallowing in the normal way to begin with, and then regurgitating the semi-digested cud to re-chew it and thus extract the maximum possible food value.
Not all ruminants belong to the Ruminantia. Camels and llamas are among the exceptions, a suborder known as Tylopoda. Also, there are a number of other large grazing mammals that, while not strictly ruminants, have similar adaptations for surviving on large quantities of low-grade food. Kangaroos and horses are examples. For more information, visit the Wikipedia entry. Get back to Eutheria | ||
African buffalo
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Antelopes
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Deers & allies
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Giraffe
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Musk deers
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Okapi
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Saola
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Sheep, goats & allies
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Synthetoceras
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Water buffalo & allies'
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Wild and domestic cattle
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