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Значения термина perissodactyl на английском

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Placental mammals having hooves with an odd number of toes on each foot.

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Использование термина perissodactyl на английском
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One leading to the existing perissodactyl foot, and the other, apparently later, resulting in the artiodactyl type.
Darwin, and After Darwin, Volumes 1 and 3 / An Exposition of the...
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The fifth digit, for the same reasons as in the perissodactyl foot, first left the ground and became smaller.
Darwin, and After Darwin, Volumes 1 and 3 / An Exposition of the...
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These animals, which are grouped with the horse among the ODD-TOED (perissodactyl) mammals, are now verging toward extinction.
The Elements of Geology
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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.
The Elements of Geology
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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.
Darwin, and After Darwin, Volumes 1 and 3 / An Exposition of the...
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Modern perissodactyls exist as three small clades of threatened species: horses, rhinos, and tapirs.
The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
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Modern perissodactyls represent but a shade of their former glory.
The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
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Rhinos belong to a group of animals called perissodactyls.
BBC
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Like the perissodactyls, they are descended from the primitive five-toed plantigrade mammals of the lowest Eocene.
The Elements of Geology
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Nobody is quite sure how perissodactyls evolved.
BBC
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What is clear is that the early perissodactyls were the ancestors of rhinos, as well as all modern horses, zebras and tapirs.
BBC
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