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Encyclopedia: Ungulate

Ungulates (meaning roughly "hoofed" or "hoofed animal") are several groups of mammals most of which use the tips of their toes, usually hoofed, to sustain their whole bodyweight whilst moving. They make up several orders of mammals, of which six to eight survive. There is some dispute as to whether ungulate should be treated as an actual cladistic (evolution-based) group, or merely a phenetic group (similar, but not necessarily related), in light of the fact that all ungulates do not appear to be as closely related as once believed (see below). Ungulata was formerly considered an order which has been split into Perissodactyla and Artiodactyla. Members of these two orders are called the 'true ungulates' to distinguish them from 'subungulates' (paenungulata) which include members from the Proboscidea, Sirenia, and Hyracoidea orders.^[1]

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How to say "Ungulate" in other languages:

	(German)	Huftiere
	(Spanish)	Ungulado
	(French)	Ungulata
	(Italian)	Ungulati

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Flehmen response

The Flehmen response is a particular type of curling of the lips in ungulates, felids, and many other mammals, which facilitates the transfer of chemicals into the vomeronasal organ...

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Even-toed ungulate

Even-toed ungulates Mountain Goat Scientific classification : Animalia Phylum... ungulates form the mammal order Artiodactyla . They are ungulates whose weight is borne about equally by... with many mammal groups, even-toed ungulates first appeared during the early Eocene (about 54...

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Tahr

The tahr , genus Hemitragus , is the common name for several species of mountain-dwelling Asian goat-antelopes. They have shaggy coats and curved horns. Tahrs are in the family Bovidae with other even-toed, horned ungulates like cattle and antelope. They are related to true goats. There are three...

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Odd-toed ungulate

Odd-toed ungulates Plains Zebras Scientific classification : Animalia Phylum... The odd-toed ungulates or Perissodactyla are large to very large browsing and grazing mammals with...: the tapirs and the rhinoceroses. The odd-toed ungulates arose in what is now North America in the...

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Afrotheria

Afrotheria; for example, Sirenia to whales, tenrecs to Insectivora, Paenungulata to other ungulates...

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Bactrian Camel

( Camelus bactrianus ) is a large even-toed ungulate native to the steppes of eastern Asia. It is...

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African Hunting Dog

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Himalayan tahr

ungulate native to the Himalayas. They spend the summers grazing in high pastures, then come down the...

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Horse (disambiguation)

A horse is a large ungulate mammal. A horse is a piece of equipment used in gymnastics. It consists of a horizontal padded mass, representing the body of a horse, with two handles on top. Horse is also the name of a game played with a basketball. Horse is also a slang term for the...

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