Describe the process of Digestion in Ruminants.

The process of digestion in ruminants is – the food swallowed is filled and passed to the second chamber. The digestive juices digest food and while resting the cud is brought back to the mouth for rechewing. Ruminants have an entirely different digestive system than humans. The general process of food digestion starts from the mouth and continues through the food pipe, stomach, and intestine. This procedure is entirely different in ruminants.

Ruminants:

1. Ruminants are all types of herbivorous mammals that consume plants.
2. To break down plant matter and promote digestion, they chew the cud.
3. The four chambers of the stomach are the rumen, reticulum, omasum, and abomasum.

Animals that consume plants, such as sheep, goats, cattle, buffaloes, bison, giraffes, yaks, and deer, are referred to as ruminants. These four-chambered stomachs are employed for digestion by these cud-chewing mammals. These species have adapted to a process known as rumination, which allows them to eat only plant-based foods. They chew, regurgitate, and ferment their food through the act of ruminating before the main digestive process.