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  • the woolly rhinoceros is an odd-toed ungulate and is characterized by large size and projections or "horns" on the upper snout. It ...
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  • As even-toed ungulates (order Artiodactyla), hippopotamuses are hoofed ... Unlike most even-toed ungulates, the hippopotamuses, pigs, and peccaries ...
    43 KB (6,299 words) - 15:51, 25 January 2023
  • role of symbiotic bacteria and protists in many even-toed ungulates (cattle, deer, goats, and sheep) has been shown essential to allow them to break ...
    12 KB (1,722 words) - 17:27, 9 November 2022
  • The elk is a large ungulate animal of the Artiodactyla order (even ... material into carbohydrates, which the ungulate can digest. Both sides receive ...
    32 KB (4,952 words) - 08:44, 31 December 2021
  • Cervidae family of the order Artiodactyla, or even-toed hoofed mammals, with two large and two small hooves on each foot. Deer differ from other ...
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  • a member of the deer family Cervidae, a taxon of even-toed ungulates (order Artiodactyla), that includes elk, moose, caribou or reindeer, muntjac, red ...
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  • The horse or domestic horse (Equus caballus) is a sizable ungulate ... (about 20 million years ago), when even-toed ungulates, with stomachs ...
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  • often faintly striped legs. This large ungulate mammal is the last remaining ... genus. Extant equids are medium to large ungulate mammals, with long heads ...
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  • [[Image:Mesonyx.jpg|thumb|right|Mesonyx, a carnivorous ungulate]] The oldest known fossils of most of the modern mammal orders appear within a ...
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  • The sirenians and cetaceans are thought to be descendant from an ungulate ancestor, while the pinnipeds, otters, and polar bear are descended ...
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  • The leopard (Panthera pardus) is an Old World mammal of the Felidae family and one of the four "big cats" in the Panthera genus, along ...
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  • Boar, or wild boar, is an omnivorous, gregarious mammal, Sus scrofa of the biological family Suidae, characterized by large heads with tusks ...
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  • The Felidae family is a part of the order Carnivora within the mammals (Class Mammalia). Members of the family are called cats or felids, and ...
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  • The nation of Benin is a sliver of a country in West Africa, the shape of which has been compared to a flaming torch. It encompasses 43,484 sqare ...
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  • Ragweed is the common name for any of the various wind-pollinated, flowering plants comprising the genus Ambrosia in the sunflower family (Asteraceae ...
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  • Wolverine is the common name for a solitary, carnivorous mammal, Gulo gulo, of the weasel family (Mustelidae), characterized by a large and stocky ...
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  • Kills are generally estimated at around one large ungulate every two weeks. The period shrinks for females raising young, and may be as short ...
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  • :* Exotic ungulate encephalopathy (EUE) in nyala, oryx, and greater kudu * In humans: :* several varieties of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) ...
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  • plains. There is considerable movement of large ungulate species across this boundary. === Flora === The park's predominant environment is ...
    18 KB (2,633 words) - 02:41, 11 March 2023
  • The tiger (Panthera tigris) is a mammal of the Felidae family and one of the four species of "big cats" (subfamily Pantherinae) in ...
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