On a recent chilly Summit County evening, my wife and I sat down to a dinner of hot soup, salad and bread. It was a healthy dinner for omnivores like ourselves, but one that required agriculture and ...

Cows are notorious for chewing their cud, but did you know this is actually a key part of their digestive process? This chewing of cud, also called “ruminating,” is one feature of an interesting and ...

Eating grass–sounds simple, right? But behind this everyday process lies a highly specialized system in many hoofed animals that is unique. Who would have thought that a cow or a deer needs four ...

When digesting ruminants exhale methane. Their contribution to this global greenhouse gas is considerable. So far the assumption had been that camels with similar digestion produce the same amount of ...

WITH very few exceptions, animals do not produce an alimentary cellulase; consequently cellulose, which may constitute a considerable proportion of the diet of herbivores under many environmental ...

Cows, along with sheep, goats, deer, antelope, bison, buffalo, moose, elk, and reindeer, are all ruminants. These are mammals with four compartments in their digestive system that let them re-chew and ...