Odd-taed ungulate
Appearance
Odd-taed ungulates | |
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Huif o a horse | |
Scientific classification | |
Kinrick: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Cless: | Mammalia |
Infracless: | Eutheria |
Superorder: | Laurasiatheria |
Order: | Perissodactyla Owen, 1848 |
Families[1] | |
An odd-taed ungulate is a mammal wi huifs that featur an odd nummer o taes. Odd-taed ungulates comprise the order Perissodactyla (Greek: περισσός, perissós, "uneven", an δάκτυλος, dáktylos, "finger/tae").[2] The middle tae on each huif is uisually muckler nor its neighbours. Odd-taed ungulates are relatively muckle grazers an, unlik the ruminant even-taed ungulates (artiodactyls), thay hae relatively semple stomachs acause thay are hindgut fermenters, digestin plant cellulose in thair intestines rather nor in ane or mair stomachs. Odd-taed ungulates include the horse, tapirs, an rhinoceroses.