In case of abuse, Leviticus 11 gives us lists and characteristics of kosher animals – mammals, birds, fish and insects. Mammals must be ruminants with split hooves. Why? The answer is pretty ...

Imagine an animal that seems to be assembled from various other creatures: it has large eyes, the round body of a rabbit, a ...

The Torah, in Parshas Shemini identifies the two signs of a Kosher animal; מעלה גרה - it must chew its cud and מפרסת פרסה - have split hooves. It then identifies four animals that ...

Their specially adapted split hooves help them traverse the steep ... but they then split into smaller groups of around 15 to 30 animals in the winter months. Herds are largely female; males ...

[Related: Why animals run faster than their robot doppelgängers ... This is due to the ability of split-hooves to both spread out and contract during each footfall. Each toe’s exposed ...

What makes an animal kosher? If it is a ruminant animal (i.e., one that chews its cud) and has split hooves, then it is deemed permissible. An ox or cow is a classical kosher animal since it meets ...