Hoof

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(Capreolus capreolus) have cloven hooves with prominent dewclaws. The hoof ( : hooves or hoofs) is the tip of a toe of an ungulate mammal, which is covered and strengthened with a thick and horny keratin covering. Hooves are present in some even-toed and odd-toed placental mammals, as well as in some nonmammalians. *Artiodactyls ( : "even", and : "toe") are even-toed ungulates, species whose feet have an even number of digits; the ruminants with two digits are the most numerous, e.g. giraffe, deer, bison, cattle, goats, gazelles, antelopes, pigs, and sheep. *The feet of perissodactyl ( : : uneven", and : "toe") mammals have an odd number of toes, e.g. the horse, the rhinoceros, and the tapir. *Although hooves are limb structures primarily found in placental mammals, hadrosaurs such as Edmontosaurus possessed hoofed hindlimbs. The marsupial Chaeropus also had hooves.

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