Artiodactyl

Artiodactyla
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Artiodactyla
Families
Suiformes Hippopotamidae Tayassuidae (peccaries) Suidae (pigs) Tylopoda Camelidae (camels and their relatives) Ruminantia Tragulidae (chevrotains) Antilocapridae (pronghorn antelope) Giraffidae (giraffes and okapi) Moschidae (musk deer) Cervidae (deer) Bovidae (cattle, goats, sheep, etc.)

Artiodactyls are ungulates whose weight is borne about equally by the third and fourth toes, rather than mostly or entirely by the third as in perissodactyls.

All kosher mammals are Ruminantia. Tylopoda walk on pads on the toes (the name means "padfoot") and are therefore considered not to have true hooves; but they are halal. Pigs do not ruminate and are considered unclean by both Judaism and Islam.

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as of 2002-07-10