#ungulate

[vintagewildlife]

Pot-bellied pig and puppy playing together By: Betty Scott From: Pot-bellied Pigs and Other Miniature Pet Pigs 1992

[mammalianmammals]

Nilgai (Boselaphus tragocamelus), male, family Bovidae, Keoladeo National Park, India

photograph by Anirban Mitra

[canisalbus]

✦ Piroska ✦

[fyanimaldiversity]

Melanistic white tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus)

@ davidfranklin1

[eucyon]

[herpsandbirds]

Green Jay (Cyanocorax luxuosus), family Corvidae, order Passeriformes, sitting on top of a Javelina (Dicotyles tajacu), family Tayassuidae, South, TX, USA

photograph by Steve Hillebrand U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

[jbbartram-illu]

My first proper glaze firing went really well, so here are some sunbeam glamour shots of a few of the new ungulates!

This one below is my fav because for some unknown* reason, its horn un-swirled itself during the glaze firing, but in a cool way that would have been very fiddly to do if I was sculpting it like that on purpose?! It's particularly interesting to me that the horn didn't shift at all during the bisque fire, then went SPROING just in the glaze firing. Pottery is wild, you guys!

P.S: I will be posting an update on the medieval vessels as soon as I figure out where the HECK icloud has put those photos / get organized enough to switch back to using dropbox for my phone --> computer photo needs b/c icloud is always doing nonsensical shit.

*by 'unknown' I mean 'probably because I'm very lazy about properly scoring/slip-ing the body of the horn, haha whoops

[snailtongue]

[ID: A fuzzy black mule wearing a dark gray halter.]

[internetdruid]

hello i just wanted to ask an ungulate enjoyer, what's your favourite goat?

Technically I could just answer this with the Takin again, but i will spare you and give you my second favorite goat:

the Himalayan Tahr (Hemitragus Jemlahicus)

but if you meant my favorite domestic goat that's a tie between Angora Goats & Kalahari Reds

[critter-creature-or-beast]

Photo by Alaina McLearnon on Unsplash

[alphynix]

Cadurcodon ardynensis was an odd-toed ungulate that lived in what is now Mongolia during the late Eocene, about 37-34 million years ago.

It was around 2m long (6'6") and, despite its very tapir-like appearance and lack of horns, it was actually closer related to modern rhinoceroses – it was part of a group of early rhino-cousins known as amynodontids, which convergently evolved both hippo-like and tapir-like lifestyles.

Cadurcodon was the most tapir-like of the tapir-like amynodontids, with a short deep skull and retracted nasal bones that indicate it had a well-developed prehensile trunk. Males also had large tusks formed from their upper and lower canine teeth, which may have been used for fighting each other.

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References:

Averianov, Alexander, et al. "A new amynodontid from the Eocene of South China and phylogeny of Amynodontidae (Perissodactyla: Rhinocerotoidea)." Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 15.11 (2017): 927-945. https://doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2016.1256914

Громова, В. [Gromova, V.] Болотные носороги (Amydontidae) Монголии. [Swamp rhinoceroses (Amynodontidae) of Mongolia.] Trudi Paleontol. Inst., Akad. Nauk SSSR 55:85-189 (1954) https://www.geokniga.org/books/13983

Prothero, Donald R., and Robert M. Schoch. Horns, tusks, and flippers: the evolution of hoofed mammals. JHU Press, 2002. http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/pdf_files/141/1415340780.pdf

Wall, William P. "Cranial evidence for a proboscis in Cadurcodon and a review of snout structure in the family Amynodontidae (Perissodactyla, Rhinocerotoidea)." Journal of Paleontology (1980): 968-977. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1304363

Wikipedia contributors. “Amynodontidae.” Wikipedia, 17 Dec. 2023, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amynodontidae

Wikipedia contributors. “Ergilin Dzo Formation.” Wikipedia, 12 Feb. 2024, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergilin_Dzo_Formation

[vintagewildlife]

Saiga calf By: Karl Soffel From: Lebensbilder aus der Tierwelt 1908

[mammalianmammals]

Moose (Alces alces), juvenile, piebald coloration, family Cervidae, eastern Norway

photographed by Thomas Morch ᴍøʀᴄʜ ғᴏᴛᴏ 🇳🇴 (@m0rch)

[canisalbus]

[fyanimaldiversity]

Abundistic plains zebra (Equus quagga)

@ FRANK LIU

[huskyzstuff]

if women are oppressed then why domestic yak