Imagine an animal that seems to be assembled from various other creatures: it has large eyes, the round body of a rabbit, a ...

It primarily affects ruminants, animals with stomachs divided into four compartments and that chew cud, a portion of food that returns from the stomach to the mouth to be chewed for a second time.

They chew, swallow, regurgitate and re-chew “cud” before finally digesting it. Project coordinators believe this digestive process, and the Navajo-Churro sheep’s four stomach chambers ...

Sheep are ruminants, plant eating mammals with multiple stomach compartments. They chew, swallow, regurgitate and re-chew “cud” before finally digesting it. Project coordinators believe this digestive ...