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Artiodactyla

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Artiodactyla

Order of even-toed mammals containing pigs, camels, hippos, and ruminant animals, such as antelope, deer, and sheep.

The order is divided into nine living families (the other 20 families are all extinct). Suidae includes the eight species of pig; Tayassuidae, the two species of peccary; and Hippopotamidae, the two species of hippopotamuses. Camelidae has three to five species of camels and the guanaco. The five ruminant (cud-chewing) families are Tragulidae, with four species of chevrotain; Cervidae, 41 species of deer; Bovidae, 128 species of cattle, sheep, and antelopes; Antilocapridae, one species, the pronghorn, often misnamed antelope, of North America; and Giraffidae, two species of giraffe.
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