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  • So that, in these cases, the other Ungulata _must_ have taken to leaf eating or have starved, and thus must have had any accidental long-necked varieties favoured and preserved exactly as the long-necked varieties of the giraffe are supposed to have been favoured and preserved.

    On the Genesis of Species St. George Mivart

  • Even the very earliest Ungulata show this distinction, which is completely developed and marked even in the Eocene palæotherium and anoplotherium found in Paris by Cuvier.

    On the Genesis of Species St. George Mivart

  • Author that the giraffe has powers of locomotion and endurance fully equal to those possessed by any of the other Ungulata of that continent.

    On the Genesis of Species St. George Mivart

  • It is true that the elephants are generally considered to form a group apart from both the odd and the even-toed Ungulata.

    On the Genesis of Species St. George Mivart

  • The Ungulata or hoofed quadrupeds are now divided into the even-toed or odd-toed divisions; but the Mærauchenia of S. America connects to a certain extent these two grand divisions.

    XI. On the Geological Succession of Organic Beings. On the Affinities of Extinct Species to Each Other, and to Living Forms 1909

  • It can thus obtain food beyond the reach of the other Ungulata or hoofed animals inhabiting the same country; and this must be a great advantage to it during dearths.

    VII. Miscellaneous Objections to the Theory of Natural Selection 1909

  • In the _Anthropoidea_ alone of nonaquatic mammals the olfactory regions undergo an absolute (and not only relative, as in the _Carnivora_ and _Ungulata_) dwindling, which is equally shared by the human brain, in common with those of the other

    Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man Havelock Ellis 1899

  • The 'impulsiveness' is the galloping or leaping movement which is characteristic of most Mammals when moving at their utmost speed, as seen, for example, in horses, deer, antelopes, dogs, wolves, and other Ungulata and Carnivora.

    Hormones and Heredity J. T. Cunningham 1897

  • Apparently singular as is the elephant in its anatomy, it bears traces of affinity to both Rodentia and Ungulata.

    Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870

  • In the _Artiodactyla_ -- or, I should say, in the _Ungulata_ generally -- the thumb is entirely wanting; in the

    Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870

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