List of Mammals of Great Britain - Even-toed Ungulates

Even-toed Ungulates

Superorder: Laurasiatheria Order: Artiodactyla

The even-toed ungulates 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. There are about 220 artiodactyl species, including many that are of great economic importance to humans.

  • Wild Boar Sus scrofa - reintroduced
  • Feral goat Capra aegagrus hircus - Bilberry goat
  • Sheep Ovis orientalis aries - Soay sheep
  • Cattle Bos primigenius taurus - Chillingham wild cattle
  • Scottish red deer Cervus elaphus scoticus
  • Moose Alces alces alces - reintroduced
  • Sika Deer C. nippon – Introduced
  • Fallow Deer Dama dama - Introduced
  • Roe Deer Capreolus capreolus
  • Reeves's Muntjac Muntiacus reevesi – Introduced
  • Water Deer Hydropotes inermis – Introduced
  • Reindeer Rangifer tarandus – reintroduced

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