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ANIMAL RUMIANTE [1 record]

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Record 1 2003-12-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mammals
DEF

Refers to any eventoed, hoofed mammal of the suborder Ruminantia (such as cattle, bison, sheep, goats, deer, elk and antelope); any cloven-hoofed mammal characterized by having a stomach divided into four compartments and chewing a cud consisting of regurgitated, partially digested food.

OBS

... any of a suborder (Ruminantia) of four-footed, hoofed, even-toed, and cud-chewing mammals, as the cattle, buffalo, goat, deer, camel, antelope, giraffe, etc., having a stomach with four chambers (the "rumen", "reticulum", "omasum", and "abomasum") ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mammifères
OBS

Le ruminant actuel est défini par les caractères que voici: pattes à doigts III et IV seuls persistants ou beaucoup plus développés que les doigts latéraux - métacarpiens ou métatarsiens III et IV soudés en os canon-denture incomplète par absence d'incisives et de canines supérieures - molaires à fût élevé et à couronne plate de type sélénodonte - frontal portant en général des cornes ou des bois - estomac pluriloculaire et capable de rumination. Mis à part ce dernier caractère, qu'il est impossible d'observer à l'état fossile, tous les autres sont connus pour avoir évolué graduellement depuis le début de l'ère tertiaire [...]

OBS

[...] groupe de mammifères ongulés artiodactyles à deux doigts, dont l'estomac complexe permet aux aliments de remonter dans la bouche.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Mamíferos
DEF

Ungulado con pezuñas, que rumia.

Key term(s)
  • animal rumiante
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