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How Many Toes Does a Horse Have?

How Many Toes Does a Horse Have?

Wait a minute - horses have toes?! They do. Animals with hooves, like horses, pigs, cows, and even aardvarks, have toes! The hoof is the tip of the toe. Animals with an odd number of toes are all cousins with each other, and those with even numbers are a different family. So who has what? Horses and rhinoceroses are odd-toed: each hoof is just 1 toe. But cows, pigs, giraffes, camels, deer, and hippopotamuses are all even-toed, usually 1 big toe in front and a small one in back. Question: where do we put the nail polish?

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