Kiprobalhato wrote:
kitesandtrainsandcats wrote:
(okay, that isn't strictly technically a false friends thing, and burros don't have toes....)[/i]
wut? of course they do. as do all other perissodactyls.
Why it is I can't go a single day on this bloody forum without learning something I didn't know?
And Google finds ...
... that I was right when I thought I was wrong and being silly.
Interesting.
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"Odd-toed" or "odd-hoofed" mammals make up the Perissodactyla. Like the "even-toed" Artiodactyla, perissodactyls are unguligrades; that is, they walk on the terminal bones of the toes and have enlarged toenails forming hoofs. Unlike artiodactyls, perissodactyls either walk on three toes (like rhinos, tapirs, many extinct horses, and other extinct groups) or on a single toe (like recent horses).
Only seventeen species of perissodactyls remain on the Earth today, a shadow of the group's former glory. Perissodactyls were once much more diverse, including the enormous horned brontotheres, the bizarre browsing, clawed chalicotheres, and the largest land mammal of all time, the Eocene Indricotherium (formerly known as Baluchitherium). It stood five meters (over sixteen feet) tall at the shoulder.
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/mammal/mes ... ctyla.html
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