(1) Forage crops and native rangelands are vital to U.S. livestock interests, since they're the main feed staple of all ruminant animals tied to the meat and dairy industries.

(2) The giraffe is the biggest ruminant and the tallest mammal in the world.

(3) The U.S. imposed the ban on all Canadian ruminant products and by-products in May, following the discovery of a case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad cow disease, on a farm in Alberta.

(4) Groups of ruminant steers had settled down in the shade of old oaks.

(5) He was interested in improving digestive processes within the rumen, the first of the four stomachs of ruminant animals, where cellulose is broken down by bacteria.

(6) Caribou and muskox are included in the ruminant category, which means Nunavut country food products can't be sold overseas until the ban is lifted

(7) In 1997 the Canadian Food Inspection Agency banned the feeding of recycled products from ruminant animals back to other ruminants , like cattle, sheep, goats, bison, elk or deer.

(8) Like ruminants , poultry and pigs raised on pasture also get to enjoy a less stressful life.

(9) Experts agree that hippos belong to the mammalian order Artiodactyla, a group of even-toed, hoofed creatures whose extant representatives include camels, pigs and ruminants such as cows.

(10) Beef cows, brood ewes, and most other ruminants do not require consistent quality forage, and longer grazing periods should suffice.

(11) Sheep and goats are ruminants and are genomically similar to cows.

(12) Note that cattle are ruminants and can convert inedible grains such as grass into protein and that they do not require to be fed soy and other grains.

(13) The report notes that the key to preventing BSE is to ensure that meat and bone meal from ruminants is not be fed back to ruminants .

(14) Accurate and precise estimates of forage energy content are required to formulate diets properly for lactating dairy cows and other ruminants .

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(16) It provides early spring forage not only for cattle and sheep, but for wild ruminants as well, including deer, bison, elk, and moose.

(17) Forests are more than trees, of course, and along with its timber Afghanistan is at risk of losing its wolves, snow leopards, bears, and foxes, as well as alpine ruminants like Marco Polo sheep and ibex.

(18) In 2003, the United States exported approximately $7.5bn worth of beef, beef products, cattle and other ruminants and ruminant by-products.

(19) The ability of ruminants to store partially chewed food in one stomach chamber and to return it to the mouth for further mastication explains why they do not need, and do not have, incisors in the upper jaw.

(20) Because goats will consume a wider variety of plants than other commercial ruminants , they may be able to survive where cattle cannot.