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I feel like there's a lot of confusion about digestive systems & dietary classifications of different animals. As an animal scientist, I'm part of a small subset of people on 🌎actually bothered by this. So, a thread of recycled material from my days of teaching @okstateafs 
You can classify animals by the digestive anatomy & the type of diet animals consume (typically consume, as there are plenty of examples of "herbivores" occasionally eating animal sourced foods). Anatomy can be things like stomach structure & where most fermentation takes place
There are animals that have most microbial fermentative capacity BEFORE their gastric stomach (e.g., low pH stomach like our own). These animals are classified as "pre-gastric" fermenters. Ruminants are pre-gastric fermenters
