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But first I must tell you that, by some special privilege, the reason for which I do not undertake to explain, the order of ruminants is the only one containing animals with horns on their foreheads. Stags, goats, reindeer, chamois, gazelles, roebucks, oxen, buffaloes, all the beasts with horned foreheads, belong to the ruminants.
Schmerling in a sufficient state of integrity to enable the anatomist to speculate on the race to which it belonged, was buried 5 feet deep in a breccia, in which the tooth of a rhinoceros, several bones of a horse, and some of the reindeer, together with some ruminants, occurred. On the right bank of the Meuse, on the opposite side of the river to Engis, is the cavern of Engihoul.
"In all ruminants, the food, when swallowed, passes into the first stomach; it is then brought up to be chewed again; this is called 'chewing the cud. You must often have seen a cow or a sheep sitting quiet in the sun and constantly chewing." "Yes," replied Lucien, "and l'Encuerado always told me that they had eaten some bitter herb."
The different structure of the horns of the Bovine and Ovine Ruminants is, in my view, the result of a different mode of fighting.
On the other hand, there is the important and really remarkable fact that familiar as man has been for ages with Ruminants of many kinds such as sheep, goats, cattle, deer there is absolutely no case on record of an "oddity" or "monstrosity" resembling the rat-goat's condition occurring in the teeth of any of the hundreds of thousands of these animals killed and eaten by man, and therefore closely examined.
The panther, the leopard, and the jaguar, are all tree-climbers. They can follow the bird to its roost, and the monkey to its perch. The forest is their appropriate home. They are forest animals. Not so the lion. It is upon the open plains where the great ruminants love to roam, and among the low bushy thickets that skirt them, that the lion affects to dwell.
When I apply the former term, I merely mean to say that as a matter of fact, the form B, so named, is intermediate between the others, in the sense in which the Anoplotherium is intermediate between the Pigs and the Ruminants without either affirming, or denying, any direct genetic relation between the three forms involved.
In the towns one meets men in various employments, such as the police, who have served in the army, and still retain some sort of soldierly appearance, but once get into the country, and it is vain to look for any evidence of military service amongst the rural population. The country-folk are a patient lot; most of them ruminants, like their own oxen.
And now, let us return to our ruminants those dear, good beasts, the nourishing fathers of the human race. MAMMALIA continued. Ruminants continued. Every created thing has an appointed part to perform; but there are some mysterious parts of which we cannot understand the drift. That of the ruminants, however, is so clearly marked out, that we detect it at a glance.
Linnaeus led the way in this field of inquiry by comparing Man and the apes, in the same manner as he compared these last with the carnivores, ruminants, rodents, or any other division of warm-blooded quadrupeds.
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