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Ruminants
Ruminantia
Ruminantia is a taxon within the order Artiodactyla that includes many of the well-known large grazing or browsing mammals: among them cattle, goats, sheep, deer, and antelope. All members of the Ruminantia employ foregut fermentation and are ruminants: they digest food in two steps, chewing and swallowing in the normal way to begin with, and then regurgitating the semidigested cud to rechew it and thus extract the maximum possible food value.
6 branches of this suborder, most-observed first · about 234 known species
Deer
familyCervidae
Bovids
familyBovidae
Giraffes and Okapi
familyGiraffidae
Pronghorns
familyAntilocapridae
Chevrotains
familyTragulidae
Musk Deer
familyMoschidae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 424850.