Topic summary
Even-toed ungulates
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Artiodactyla.
Limbs
Even-toed ungulates bear their name because they have an even number of toes (two or four). In some peccaries, the hind legs have a reduction in the number of toes to three. The central axis of the leg is between the third and fourth toe. The first toe is missing in modern artiodactyls, and can only be found in now-extinct genera. The second and fifth toes are adapted differently between species: