kosher animals
Ritually fit beasts
Kosher animals are those permitted for consumption under Jewish dietary law.
For mammals, this means animals that both chew their cud and have cloven hooves—cattle, sheep, goats, and deer qualify; pigs and rabbits do not.
Fish must have fins and scales.
Birds are identified by tradition rather than anatomical rules, with most poultry permitted but birds of prey forbidden.
- cattleDomesticated bovines kept commercially
- sheepWoolly farm animal
- goatHorned, bearded livestock
- deerAntlered hoofed mammal
- fishGilled aquatic vertebrate
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