Thanks for visiting! A few years back, I briefly covered a throwaway Yahoo! article about how âcarbs will make you lose weightâ because so many readers had emailed about it. It turned out that the âcarbsâ in the article were resistant starch, a type of carbohydrate that our digestive enzymes cannot break down. Iâll admit now, with regret, that I didnât look as deeply into the matter as I might have.
Appendages that can become prehensile include: 1  Prehensile feet: The hands of primates are all prehensile to varying degrees. The claws of cats are prehensile. 2  Prehensile tails â Many extant lizards have prehensile tails (geckos, chameleons, and a species of skink). Seahorses grip seaweed with their tails. Several fossil animals have been interpreted as having prehensile tails, including several Late Triassic drepanosaurs, and possibly the Late Permian synapsid Suminia.
Cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises) do not have hooves but are actually the closest relatives of even-toed hoofed mammals. A group of animals called subungulates are sometimes grouped with hoofed mammals. This group includes elephants, aardvarks, hyraxes, manatees, and dugongs.Elephants and aardvarks both have tough nails, but none of the subungulates have full hooves.ven-toed hoofed mammals include pigs and their relatives, hippopotamuses, camels, llamas, alpacas, vicunas, guanacos, deer, giraffes, okapis, cows and their relatives, goats and their relatives, and antelope. Odd-toed hoofed mammals include horses, donkeys, zebras, tapirs, and rhinoceroses.