Ruminant

Grainger, for the ones who get it done.

X. RUMINANCE cattle and sheep are remarkable from displaying in so slight a degree their emotions or sensations excepting that of extreme pain a bull when enraged exhibits his rage only by the manner in which he holds his lowered head with distended nostrils and by bellowing he also often paws the ground but this pawing seems quite different from that of an impatient horse for when the soil is loose he throws up clouds of dust i believe that bulls act in this manner when irritated by flies for the sake of driving them away the wilder breeds of sheep and the chamois when startled stamp on the ground and whistle through their noses and this serves as a danger signal to their comrades the musk-ox of the arctic regions when encountered likewise stamps on the ground how this stamping action arose i cannot conjecture for from inquiries which i have made it does not appear that any of these animals fight with their fore-legs some species of deer when savage display far more expression than do cattle sheep or goats for as has already been stated they draw back their ears grind their teeth erect their hair squeal stamp on the ground and brandish their horns One day in the zoological gardens, the Formosan deer, Cervus sudaxis, approached me in a curious attitude, with his muzzle raised high up so that the horns were pressed back on his neck, the head being held rather obliquely.

From the expression of his eye I felt sure that he was savage.

He approached slowly, and as soon as he came close to the iron bars, he did not lower his head to butt at me, but suddenly bent it inwards, and struck his horns with great force against the railings.

And it was called That's Not Me.

And I ended up adapting that into a short movie called The Ruminant.

And that's like the first real movie that I had done.

And it's a movie that involves a guy who's cloned.

Ruminants.

Order of Ruminantia.

All the animals belonging to this order seem to have been constructed on the same model.

Their name is derived from the circumstance of chewing the cud.

Rumination, from the Latin ruminatio, the act of chewing the cud.

Ruminant, an animal that chews the cud.

Ruminantia, the systematic name of animals that ruminate.

Rupicapra, from the Latin rupus, a rock, and capra, a goat.