Petworld large and diverse: the elegant and graceful, heavyweights and thick-skinned.An interesting group of hoofed inhabitants of our planet.Cloven-hoofed animals are so called because they have the pair number of fingers, is securely protected horny hoof.They are medium to large in size, live in the forests, mountains, plains, deserts.Many have horns.The wild forms are widely distributed on all continents except Antarctica, Australia and Oceania.However, in Australia, now you can find ungulates imported and acclimatized person.
fact that the continent was ruled by English colonists.As you know, the British often drink tea, preferring to dilute it with milk.Therefore, to satisfy their tastes they were brought to Australia cows.It would seem that peace Cows, familiar to us from the children's cartoon, melancholy chewing grass - a symbol of rural idyll.However, they almost caused an environmental catastrophe!Since the cows were artificially spread by the Australian continent, they could not have any natural enemies, no insects, helping to decompose cow dung, which quickly filled pastures.We had to urgently bring dung beetles, better known under the title "Scarab".The Egyptians worshiped them as sacred, because each scarab certainly was pushing a ball of dung, which is perceived by the Egyptians as a symbol of the sun for a similar form.
all cloven-hoofed animals are divided into types: ruminants, non-ruminants and camelids (camels).The greatest number of species are concentrated in Africa and Asia.In America, they live mostly domesticated species.
cloven-hoofed animals for the most part are the overland lifestyle.Only a few species such as the hippopotamus, are found in the water.Mountain goats have adapted to life in the mountains and can be great to climb on the rocks.
Africa hits record for the most unusual and surprising representatives of cloven-hoofed animals.The first place is perhaps easily could take hippopotamus - African cloven-hoofed animals.It has spectacular views and peculiar habits.
slender antelope kudu spread almost all over Africa.
original and unusual looks like a giraffe - ruminant cloven-hoofed animals.Better known views massayskogo giraffe yellow-brown color with chocolate spots of irregular shape.At first glance, such a clumsy, he has a great eye and a sensitive ear.Due to its color giraffe as it dissolves in the wilds of the savanna, merging with the background vegetation.
Lychee appearance resembles swamp goat.She has long, thin horns, which, when run, it throws back.In lychee long tail, rough tough wool.Color body dark red, but the throat and neck are always white, as if the collar sweater.Long hooves are usually widely separated.
gerenuk gazelle or giraffidae - another unusual representative of cloven-hoofed animals.The length of the animal's body about 1.6 m. The males can boast beautifully curved liroobraznoy shaped horns.
cloven-hoofed animals - one of the most numerous.They decorate the zoological world of our planet.
