Order Arteriodactyla even-toed ungulates

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Order Arteriodactylaeven-toed ungulates
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Ungulates

• Hoofed mammals
• Large land mammals
• Found on all contents except Antarctica and
  Australia
• Environments
• Herbivores
• Size range
• Mouse deer 4lb
• White rhinoceros 7000lb

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Even Toed

• Over 200 species
• 10 families
• Suborders
• Suinae- usually 4 toed, canines present, do not
  ruminate
• Tylopoda- family Camelidae, 3 chambered
  ruminating stomach, navicular and cuboid not
  fused
• Ruminantia- navicular and cuboid fused, missing
  incisors and canines

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Pennsylvania Arteriodactyls
White Tail Deer
Rocky Mountain Elk
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Elk Quick Facts

• Diet- Herbivore
• Life span- 8 -12 years
• Size- at shoulders 4 5ft
• Weight- 325 1,100 lbs
• - calf's 35lbs
• The Rut
• - Fall
• Harems
• Mud, bugle, rubs, fighting

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Pennsylvania Elk

• Eastern Elk native to Pa
• - Extirpated by the 1860s
• Rocky Mountain Elk introduced in 1913
• 50 elk from Yellowstone
• 22 from a Monroe county preserve
• 2000 first hunting season

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Elk Range

• January 2009 600-700 elk

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Sources

• www.life.umd.edu/.../Lectures/Ungulates.html
• http//www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Ungulate
  
• Pennsylvania State Game Commission