Question

What do you understand by rumen and rumination? What is the mode of feeding in Python?

Answer 1

• The process of regurgitating or bringing the swallowed food to the mouth after a meal and then swallowing and digesting it is known as rumination.
  
• Animals such as cows, goats, deer and giraffes are called ruminant animals.
• Ruminant animals have the four-chambered stomach- the reticulum, rumen, omasum and abomasum.
• The first large compartment in the stomach in which the food is regurgitated for rumination and cellulose is broken down by the action of symbiotic microorganisms is known as rumen.
  
• Python is a genus of nonvenomous snakes which feed on wild animals such as lizards, small alligator-like animals, monkeys and antelopes.
  
• They catch their prey with their teeth and wrap their coil around it and squeeze them.