| Ungulates |
| Unglate is a super order that contains many of the animals on the Serengeti, and since there are so many, I've broken them down by order and suborder. Ungulate roughly means "hoofed", or an animal with hooves. |
| Perissodactyla | |
| These are the odd-toed ungulates, and are large browsing and grazing mammals with simple stomachs. The only order we saw in Zambia was the Hippomorpha or zebra. |
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| Artiodactyla | |
| These are the even-toed ungulates, and break down into three
suborders- Suina (pig group), Tylopoda (camel group), and Ruminantia
(goats and cattle group). Most of them have multi-chambered stomachs
that are able to better extract nutrients from hard-to-digest grasses, and
many regurgitate partially digested grass for further chewing (the cud).
This order contains a large number of species, as you will see in the
gallery here. Since there are so many, they are broken into two
galleries.
Artiodactyla Gallery 1 (Bushbuck to Hippo) |
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| Proboscidea | |
| There are only three surviving members of the Proboscidea suborder, and all three are elephants (African Bush, African Forest, and Asian- all photos here are of African Bush Elephants). The now-extinct Wooly Mammoth was a member of this suborder. |
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