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A pseudoruminant is the classification of an animal based on its digestive tract. These types of animals are still considered foregut-fermentors, but only have three chambers in their stomach, not four like true ruminants do. Pseudo means "false". So they are "false" ruminants.

The chambers are basically the reticulum, omasum and abomasum. They do not have the characteristic rumen that identifies ruminants as ruminants. The animals that are often referred to as pseudoruminants are all camelids (camels, alpacas, llamas, etc.)

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