>Help me here, a serious question 'caue I'm no zoologist: are elephants >ruminants? Cud chewing bliss beasts filled with beneficial >micro-organisms? -Allan
No, not a ruminant. (tho I'm no zoologist either) but they have a big gut and a strong digestive process. I suppose elephants are closer to pigs (Koenig has an animal classification system that places them there) except that their diet is more veg and less omni. I belive that in the wild, they would eat more like browse. But in the zoo, they get fed nice, high quality hay. I didn't mean to say they are equivalent to cows -- nothing else is -- but similar. At one point, our local zoo was marketing "ZooDoo" and it was pretty good stuff. ========================== Dave Robison
