| The remaining toes not used for walking are either reduced, as in pigs and tapirs, or completely lost, as in rhinos and most ruminants. |
| The stomach of mouse deer is three chambered, and these animals are ruminants. |
| The most familiar sources of methane are bacteria that live in bogs, lakes and the stomachs of ruminants like cows. |
| Accurate and precise estimates of forage energy content are required to formulate diets properly for lactating dairy cows and other ruminants. |
| Forage produced from fields of bermudagrass serving as receivers of swine lagoon effluent is a potential feed source for ruminants. |
| Because goats will consume a wider variety of plants than other commercial ruminants, they may be able to survive where cattle cannot. |
