Odd-Taed Ungulate
An odd-taed ungulate is a mammal wi huifs that featur an odd nummer o taes.
| 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 |
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Odd-taed ungulates comprise the order Perissodactyla (Greek: περισσός, perissós, "uneven", an δάκτυλος, dáktylos, "finger/tae"). 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.
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