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perissodáctilos Catalan
perissodàctil Placental mammals having hooves with an odd number of toes on each foot.
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One leading to the existing perissodactyl foot, and the other, apparently later, resulting in the artiodactyl type.
2
The fifth digit, for the same reasons as in the perissodactyl foot, first left the ground and became smaller.
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These animals, which are grouped with the horse among the ODD-TOED (perissodactyl) mammals, are now verging toward extinction.
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The tapirs are an ancient family which has changed but little since it separated from the other perissodactyl stocks in the early Tertiary.
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In the further reduction of the perissodactyl foot, the fifth digit, being shorter than the remaining three, next left the ground, and gradually disappeared.
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The tapir makes a footprint much like that of a small rhinoceros, being one of the odd-toed ungulates.
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More than 200 species of mammal are distinguished by possession of hooves, known as ungulates, and are divided into two orders, even-toed and odd-toed ungulates.
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These animals, which are grouped with the horse among the ODD-TOED (perissodactyl ) mammals, are now verging toward extinction.