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Inside Story on Ruminants

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It was a cold morning. 28 degrees. Skim ice still covered the pond at sunrise. The first pond ice of the season. Jack Frost had sprinkled a thin blanket of snow on the Hideaway over night. It soon sublimated into the thin frigid air and the dim rays of a rising sun slowly melted the ice. But it did little to raise the temperature. Forget Pope Gregory’s proclamations. By Mother Nature’s calendar, winter has arrived.

We received an early morning surprise yesterday. While we were having breakfast, a beautiful four point buck arrived. His “royal rackness”’ had apparently won or avoided the travails of the current rutting season. His coat was beautiful, flawless and unmarred by combat. He began to graze ten feet from the house and continued to graze for most of the afternoon. To our surprise, he stopped grazing in late afternoon, lay down and eventually went to sleep.

Even asleep, he continued to chew. For those who haven’t grown up on or near a farm–or are not given to such crude behavior themselves–he was chewing his “cud”. Cows, moose, oxen, bison and similar critters are of the same digestive inclination.

These are of a species called “ruminants”. By definition, they have multiple stomachs. In the case of a deer, four. The first stomach is used primarily to store large amounts of food that’s poorly and rapidly chewed due to a variety of reasons. One is no doubt the potential for interruption of lunch by some predator. Once the animal is at rest, it will bring the food up for further chewing. This is called “rumination”.

Gotta admit. Some things on which I’ve “ruminated” have had the same effect.

Moving on down the digestive tract, the other stomachs have assigned jobs such as addition of bacteria, acids, enzymes, etc. that aid in the digestive process. The dubious assignment of the last stomach is to squeeze the very last bit of nourishment out of the food. And bid farewell to the rest. including various gases created in the digestive process. These are expelled freely into the environment for general enjoyment by other critters.

Crude, I guess. And more than you wanted to know. Sort of takes the royalty out that royal four point buck, doesn‘t it? But full disclosure of information, etc, etc.

His antlered excellence eventually stood up, grazed some more and left. And, I assume ruminated a bit more before finding shelter and turning in.

Now aren’t you happy you’re not a ruminant?

A wet front is coming in. Tonight we’ll have a high in the mid-forties with a waning crescent moon. The stars will peek out from behind mixed clouds. Snow is unexpected and the pond will remain thawed. The Catskills and Hudson Valley faded to black at 4:29PM, Time for action by Hideaway critters of a nocturnal persuasion. The inexorable gears of time grind on. The winter solstice is now a mere month away. And days will begin to lengthen again…….Again.

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