Ruminant Sentence Examples

As already stated, there is a possibility of this latter ruminant being allied both to the takin and the musk-ox.

Australia has no apes, monkeys or baboons, and no ruminant beasts.

A peculiar form of baboon, Cynopithecus, and the singular ruminant, Anoa, found in Celebes, seem to have no relation to Asiatic animals, and rather to be allied to those in Africa.

In common with an allied ruminant from the same district, previously described as Euceratherium, it seems probable that Preptoceras is related on the one hand to the musk-ox, and on the other to the Asiatic takin, while it is also supposed to have affinities with the sheep. If these extinct forms really serve to connect the takin with the musk-ox, their systematic importance will be very great.

Osgood to make an important addition to our knowledge of this remarkable type of ruminant.

The dorcas gazelle is still common in the south of Tunisia; but perhaps the most interesting ruminant is the magnificent udad, or Barbary sheep, which is found in the sterile mountainous regions of south Tunisia.

The East African gerenuk, or Waller's gazelle (Lithocranius walleri), of which two races have been named, is a very remarkable ruminant, distinguished not only by its exceedingly elongated neck and limbs, but also by the peculiar hooked form of the very massive horns of the bucks, the dense structure and straight profile of the skull, and the extreme slenderness of the lower jaw.

In the latter respect this ruminant resembles the takin (Budorcas) of Tibet, which, as already mentioned, has horns recalling those of the white-tailed gnu.

In this ruminant, which is of a dark-brown colour, the relatively smooth black horns diverge outwards in a manner resembling those of the bharal among the sheep rather than in goat-fashion; and, in fact, this tur, which has only a very short beard, is so bharal-like that it is commonly called by sportsmen the Caucasian bharal.

The Bovidae are thus brought into nearer relationship with the American prongbuck (the only living ruminant which sheds its horn-cover in the adult condition) than has generally been supposed.

From deposits of the same age in Greece, Samos and elsewhere have been obtained skulls and other remains of Palaeotragus or Samotherium, a ruminant closely allied to Ocapia, the males of which were armed with a very similar pair of dagger-shaped horns.

Matthew shows, however, that the skeleton of Merycodus, as the extinct ruminant is called, differs markedly from that of all deer.

The ruminant feed ban prohibited the inclusion of ruminant protein in ruminant rations.

Farmers could no longer feed their cattle feed containing ruminant MBM.

The stomach is much more complex than in the true pigs, almost approaching that of a ruminant.

Not till the discovery of the skeleton of the' species described by Mr Matthew was it possible to arrive at an adequate conception of the affinities of this remarkable ruminant.

The possibility that ruminant protein was still entering the cattle food chain was therefore considered.

When the ruminant feed ban was introduced, the scale of the epidemic was still latent.

For ruminant livestock, access to pasture must be maximized.

But the ruminant is equipped with the rumen microbes to degrade and utilize such material for food production for humans.

These were the recycling of animal waste, biological medicinal products, research, and the use of ruminant offal in baby food.

Well, nothing - ' get your goat ' appears to be a stand-alone phrase with no connection to ruminant quadrupeds.

The effect of this Decision was to ban the inclusion of gelatine in ruminant rations.

In agriculture, margin was adversely impacted in wheat based animal feeds but improved in sugar beet based ruminant feeds.

It is readily absorbed from the reticulo-rumen and is readily used by the host ruminant.

The workshop focused on the problems of tannins in animals, particularly ruminant, nutrition.

Lifting the ban on fishmeal in ruminant feeds would play a significant role in making up the anticipated shortfall in protein.

A considered decision had been made that there was no need to include tallow in the ruminant feed ban.

Was there undue delay in recommending a ruminant feed ban?

It is, in fact, the only ruminant, with the exception of the white Alaskan wild sheep, which is entirely white at all seasons of the year; and cannot, therefore, be mistaken for any other animal, and its description may consequently be brief.

The samples of ruminant feedingstuffs are being analyzed by the ELISA technique.

The ruminant feed ban was to come into force on 18 July.

France banned the feeding of ruminant protein to cattle on 13 August.

Animal feed The Committee was asked to look at the issue of ruminant feed.