UNGULATE CHARACTERS 
we find that the molar teeth, or cheek teeth, as they are 
sometimes termed, have flattened crowns suitable for 
triturating vegetable food; this contrasts with the 
sharp-pointed molars of many carnivora, which are 
equally fitted for rending flesh. These molars get 
during the life of their possessor much worn down, and 
thus present in course of time a flatter surface than 
those of carnivorous creatures, a character which the 
Ungulates share with the nearly equally graminivorous 
Rodentia. 
A general glance at the various kinds of oxen, sheep, 
deer, antelopes and camels exhibited at the Zoo will 
impress, and rightly impress, upon the visitor two other 
features in which the Ungulates differ from other 
mammalian groups that inhabit the land. The first is 
size: Ungulates run large, while Carnivora, Rodents, 
Insectivores, Marsupials, and Edentates do not. There 
are small Ungulates, like the Kanchil, and some tiny 
antelopes not bigger than a small dog; but, on the 
whole, the group is one which contains large-sized 
creatures. Secondly, Ungulates are eminently creatures 
who use their legs as supports as well as for running 
purposes. When at rest a lion lies down; a horse lies 
down but seldom, and the statement is generally true 
of the whole series of Ungulates. Sheep and goats 
climb rocks, and there are one of two kinds of Hyrax 
(called on this very account Dendrohyrax) which live in 
trees ; but, asa rule, Ungulates are plain living creatures 
of considerable swiftness. On the whole, there is in 
this group of mammals a tendency to a reduction or 
even a practical loss of the hair and fur. Animals 
belonging to such diverse groups of Ungulates as the 
rhinoceros, the elephant, the hippopotamus and the 
babyrussa, have but a scanty growth of hair ; and even 
in the deer and antelopes the hairy covering is by no 
means so dense as is the fur of a cat or a rabbit. The 
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