among the ruminant animals no single kind stands out as sharply as do eagle or lion in their own group today ruminants mostly appear in their domesticated forms but bison aurochs or yak are examples that show the archetypal bull nature quite clearly a way of grouping theme would be to show those that grapple with the forces of gravity and solidity those that are particularly sensitive and open to the forests in which they live and those with a greater capacity for awareness of their wider surrounding the first group includes animals that overcome the heaviness of their bodies ( ibex, chamois) as well as those that get more or less totally submerged their metabolic processes ( hippopotamus, pig) hart and deer are sensitively aware of their surroundings and the giraffe with its dominant neck formation is typical of the third group