Hoofed Mammals
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of over 400 hoofed mammal specimens. These date from 1877 to 2005.
This collection contains around 100 mounted specimens, including trophy heads, seven skins and 270 skulls, skeletons, horns and antlers. Other miscellaneous objects include teeth, models, hairs and droppings. Most of the collection is from Africa, except for some British species and Scottish ‘specialities’ such as the Soay sheep from St Kilda and Cadzow cattle. Many of these specimens came from E. H. Bostock of the Scottish Zoo in the early 1900s. Others, including one of Glasgow Museums’ two mounted giraffes, were shot by James McNeil, a big game hunter. Important specimens in the collection include a mounted Sumatran rhinoceros and a saiga, both critically endangered species, and the skeleton of the famous Clydesdale horse ‘the Baron of Buchlyvie’. There is also a collection of original glass plate negatives of Clydesdale horses by Brown & Sons of Lanark.
About hoofed mammals
Ungulates is a term applied to all groups of mammals that have hooves, rather than claws. They are divided into the odd-toed ungulates (Perissodactyla), comprising of horses, tapirs and rhinoceroses, and the even-toed ungulates (Artiodactyla), comprising of pigs, peccaries, hippopotamuses, camels, chevrotains, deer, giraffes, cattle, antelopes, sheep and goats. - Broader term
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