What is an odd-toed ungulate?

Hello everyone,

I just heard that zebras are called odd-toed ungulates. What exactly does that mean? Do zebras have different hooves than horses? And if so, what's the difference? 🙂

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Janeko85
5 years ago

The Unpaired are a mammalian order (i.e. a large relationship group within the mammalian). This is also the family of horses, including Zebras and Esel. In addition, the nasal horns and the tapire belong to the unpair horns.

The name comes, therefore, that all unpairs have an odd number of toes.

StRiW
5 years ago

It’s all horse-like, tapire, and all the horns

Zepras belong to the horse-like, the same hoof image.

HansImGlueck178
5 years ago

Horses are just as unpaired. Their toes are unpaired, i.e. they only have one toe per foot. Couple bugs have two.

Jaridien
5 years ago

Unpair simply means the opposite of “pair”, or an odd number (1.3 or 5) of toes on one foot. Pair oats thus have an even number of toes (2 or 4) at the foot.

eishoernchen
5 years ago

Horses and zebras are unpairs.

Goats and cows are mating.

The former have a horned toe, the latter two. These are called claws.

Shiraunddati
5 years ago

Zebras have the same course as horses. So both are unpaired. You just have a toe.

Rolf42
5 years ago

All horses are unpaired, including the zebras.

wonno93
5 years ago

Unpair bugs are a mammalian order, which includes, besides all horses (as well as donkeys, zebras, etc.), also nashorses and tapirs.

raubkatze
5 years ago

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Un Paarhufer

uneven number of toes