When these animals eat, partially digested food (cud) returns from the stomach for them to chew again. Pigs, for example, have split hooves, but they don’t chew their cud, so pork isn’t kosher.

What Do Moose Eat? Moose are generalist herbivores that eat bark, grasses, leaves, and shrubs. In summer months, they eat mostly aquatic plants, deciduous leaves, herbaceous plants, and grasses ...

When it comes to what you eat, what’s good for the planet is also good for you and may even lengthen your life, according to a new study.

Reindeer Sleep and Eat Simultaneously, Saving Precious Time in the Short Arctic Summer While the animals chew their cud, they also enter a state of rest ...

Many people believe that eating curd in winter might increase their risk of catching a cold but little do they know that curd in itself contains nutrients that can improve your immunity.

Scientists say reindeer seem to sleep while they chew, allowing them to forage all day in the summertime and still get enough sleep.

Rabbits eat their own poo. While some people might find that practice distasteful and say "Yuck", biologically it represents a highly efficient and successful solution to a digestive dilemma.

The approved animals "chew the cud," which is another way of saying they are ruminants that eat grass. Pigs "cheweth not the cud" because they possess simple guts, unable to digest cellulose.

In this busy holiday season, many of us multitask. Arctic reindeer are no exception. Reindeer can eat and sleep at the same time, a new study suggests. This timesaving strategy, described December ...

How Camels Eat Camels are herbivorous, cud-chewing mammals, yet are not true ruminants; instead, they are considered pseudo-ruminants.

Why do we have such an aversion to horse meat? The discovery of traces of horse meat in food products supposedly made of beef or pork has caused a scandal in Britain and, most recently, prompted ...