Ungulates

Elephants are often spoken of as "Ungulates," and classed by naturalists with the hoofed animals (the odd toed tapirs, rhinoceroses, and horses, and the even-toed pigs, camel, cattle, and deer).

More Science From an Easy Chair 1888

Ungulates have their own special modes of digestion.

inefficient conversions and our food 2009

Ungulates, by contrast, usually store relatively little fat.

Climate change and reindeer nomadism in Finnmark, Norway 2010

Ungulates are the most diverse set of species in this region and include the Marco Polo sheep (Ovis ammon poli), the largest of its genus.

Karakoram-West Tibetan Plateau alpine steppe 2008

Ungulates traditionally played an important ecological role in the open woodlands, plains and semi-desert areas of the hill and mountain regions.

Kuhrud-Kohbanan Mountains forest steppe 2008

Page 217-221 in F. Spitz, G. Janeau, G. Gonzalez, and S.Aulagnier. editors. 'ongules/Ungulates 91': Proceedings of the International Symposium 'ongules/Ungulates 91', Toulouse - France, September 2-6, 1991.

Northeastern Congolian lowland forests 2007

Ungulates have almost no muscle in their lower legs.

grouse Diary Entry grouse 2001

The immense development of Ungulates (in varied families, genera, and species) in North America during the whole Tertiary epoch is, however, the great feature, which assimilates it to Europe and contrasts it with

Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 James Marchant

It would seem, therefore, that some of these other Ungulates ought to have developed in a similar manner as to the neck, under pain of being starved, when the long neck of the giraffe was in its incipient stage.

On the Genesis of Species St. George Mivart

But with the exception of the peculiar muzzle of the Saiga (or European antelope), the only known proboscidian Ungulates are the elephants and tapirs, and to neither of these has the pig any close affinity.

On the Genesis of Species St. George Mivart