Odd-taed ungulate

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.

Odd-taed ungulates
Huif o a horse
Scientific classification
Kinrick:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Cless:	Mammalia
Infracless:	Eutheria
Superorder:	Laurasiatheria
Order:	Perissodactyla Owen, 1848
Families[1]
Equidae Tapiridae Rhinocerotidae † Lambdotheriidae †Brontotheriidae †Palaeotheriidae †Isectolophidae †Pachynolophidae †Chalicotheriidae †Lophiodontidae †Lophialetidae †Helaletidae †Deperetellidae †Hyrachyidae †Hyracodontidae †Rhodopagidae †Amynodontidae

References

1. Hooker, 2005, p. 206.
2. American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 3rd edition, 1992, p. 1348