What’s that silly llama doing? While it may look like Hero is enjoying a stick of bubblegum, he’s actually chewing something called cud, or regurgitated food. Llamas are a type of ruminating animal, similar to sheep, goats, and cows. Rumination is the process of eating and quickly swallowing large quantities of plant matter. Then the animal will regurgitate it at times of rest, re-chew it, then re-swallow it to allow for further digestion in a compartment of their stomach called the rumen. This