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#ruminants — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #ruminants, aggregated by home.social.

  1. Oligocene (Pt 7): Not Quite Camels, Not Quite Pigs synapsida.blogspot.com/2024/02

    "While the #ruminants of #Oligocene North America would have looked similar to the #MuskDeer of today, some of the other cloven-hoofed #mammals inhabiting the continent at the time were more distinctive..."

  2. Rearing #ruminants for #meat & #milk releases big quantities of GHG #emissions thru clearing of #forests for #pastures & crops (for feed) and as #methane. Compared to omnivorous #diets (4.16 kg CO2e/day),#vegan diets are linked to lowest impact (1.02 kg): doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2023 (2/5)

  3. New server, new #introduction: I’m a retired anthropologist & high school teacher recently diagnosed as #actuallyautistic. I live in a solar-powered, strawbale house in eastern Oregon & try to grow as much of my own food as possible. Special interests include:

    #yaks and other #ruminants #writing #cooking, #gardening #breadbaking, #fiberarts #macrophotography

    In 2014, I published an ethnographic memoir on #Nepal, which was a finalist for an Oregon Book Award in #creativenonfiction