Order Perissodactyla
Species - Latest posts / Genres - Latest posts / Animals - Latest posts / Mammals Order Perissodactyla Perissodactyla, as we know it today, is a small order of hoofed mammals, containing 17 Recent species in three families: Equidae (horses), Tapiridae (tapirs), and Rhinocerotidae (rhinoceroses). Despite being such a small order, the odd-toed ungulates have a wide distribution, being found across the Ethiopian, Palearctic, Oriental, and Neotropical zoogeographic regions. Two species have been domesticated - the horse (Equus caballus) and the donkey (Equus asinus); feral populations of these two species have been established across the globe, (re)expanding this order's influence to the Nearctic and Australasian regions. All modern perissodactyls are large to very large animals, ranging in size from the smallest equids (200 kg) to the largest rhinoceroses (3,500 kg). Despite the broad range in their physical appearance...