The even-toed ungulates (Artiodactyla / ˌ ɑːr t i oʊ ˈ d æ k t ɪ l ə /, from Ancient Greek ἄρτιος, ártios 'even', and δάκτυλος, dáktylos 'finger, toe') are ungulates—hoofed animals—which bear weight equally on two (an even number) of their five toes: the third and fourth. The other three toes are either present, absent, vestigial, or pointing posteriorly.

This is a list of even-toed ungulate species by estimated global population. This list is not comprehensive, as not all ungulates have had their numbers quantified. ... Estimate includes 75 400 animals in the Northwest Territories, 45 300 in Nunavut, 3714 in Alaska, and between 9500 and 12 500 in Greenland. Common eland: Tragelaphus oryx: 136 ...

Odd-toed ungulates, mammals which constitute the taxonomic order Perissodactyla (/ p ə ˌ r ɪ s oʊ ˈ d æ k t ɪ l ə /, from Ancient Greek περισσός, perissós 'odd', and δάκτυλος, dáktylos 'finger, toe'), are animals—ungulates—who have reduced the weight-bearing toes to three (rhinoceroses and tapirs, with tapirs still using four toes on the front legs) or one ...

The Great American Biotic Interchange (commonly abbreviated as GABI), also known as the Great American Interchange and the Great American Faunal Interchange, was an important late Cenozoic paleozoogeographic biotic interchange event in which land and freshwater fauna migrated from North America via Central America to South America and vice versa, as the …

A camel (from: Latin: camelus and Greek: κάμηλος (kamēlos) from Hebrew or Phoenician: גָמָל gāmāl.) is an even-toed ungulate in the genus Camelus that bears distinctive fatty deposits known as "humps" on its back. Camels have long been domesticated and, as livestock, they provide food (milk and meat) and textiles (fiber and felt from hair).

Many species of animals are endemic to China, including the country's most famous wildlife species, the giant panda. In all, about one-sixth of mammal species and two-thirds of amphibian species in China are endemic to the country. ... Even-toed ungulates Deer. China has a great variety of true deer and its close kin the musk deer. The ...

Etymology. Ungulate is from the Late Latin adjective ungulatus, "hoofed". Ungulatus is a diminutive form of Latin unguis, "nail" (finger nail; toe nail).. Classifications History. Ungulata is a clade (or in some taxonomies, a grand order) of mammals. The two orders of ungulates were the Perissodactyla (odd-toed ungulates) and Artiodactyla (even-toed ungulates).

Classification and evolution. The mountain goat is an even-toed ungulate of the order Artiodactyla and the family Bovidae (along with antelopes, gazelles, and cattle).It belongs to the subfamily Caprinae, along with true goats, wild sheep, the chamois, the muskox and other species. The takins of the Himalayan region, while not a sister lineage of the mountain goat, …

Animals Eukaryotes Life on Earth ... L. Jacobs, eds. 1998. Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America: Volume 1, Terrestrial Carnivores, Ungulates, and Ungulate-like Mammals. ... 1997. Molecular evidence from retroposons that whales form a clade within even-toed ungulates. Nature 388:666-670. Shoshani, J. and M. C. McKenna. 1998. ...

The Caucasian moose, also known as the Caucasian elk (Alces alces caucasicus) is an extinct subspecies of moose found in the Caucasus Mountains of Eastern Europe and Asia Minor, in modern-day European Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and eastern Turkey