Re:There’s no such thing as a tree (phylogenetically)
by jwdunne on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @05:03AM
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And killer whales. Big, carnivorous and hooved with lots of teeth. Those are ungulates too.
Interestingly enough, Judaism uses rumination, in part, to determine whether an animal is okay to eat. It was called “chewing their cud”.
Pigs don’t do this and that’s why they’re not kosher.
I suspect this was the inspiration for pork being haram in Islam but it’s explicitly prohibited by name, rather than by property.
I’m not Jewish or by any means religious but I got curious one day and that’s how I learned what ruminants were (and even toed ungulates from the split hooves rule).
EDIT: clarity on comment regarding cetaceans as ungulates
Interestingly enough, Judaism uses rumination, in part, to determine whether an animal is okay to eat. It was called “chewing their cud”.
Pigs don’t do this and that’s why they’re not kosher.
I suspect this was the inspiration for pork being haram in Islam but it’s explicitly prohibited by name, rather than by property.
I’m not Jewish or by any means religious but I got curious one day and that’s how I learned what ruminants were (and even toed ungulates from the split hooves rule).
EDIT: clarity on comment regarding cetaceans as ungulates