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Hmmm... A non-carnivorous mammal that's native to Africa and bigger than a basketball (I'm assuming regulation size basketball ) And not a manatee.


Is this a herd animal?

#6 - yes herd

Is it an Eland?

Is it an elephant?

Is it a giraffe?


Is Hayward close to Yucca Valley?

(sorry, too many questions...)

Dugongs, like manatees, are ungulates (hoofed animals).
They fit the hairy skinned, Africa ranged, non-social parts of your clues.

supes, is it a gazelle?

#7, #8, #9, and #10 - not gazelle, not elephant, not eland (what's that?), and not Giraffe.

PS Hayward is in the Bay Area....close to Fremont - about 30 minute drive south from Oakland/San Francisco.

Is it a rhino?

Candlelight, even if taxonomically dugongs and manatees are said to be related to hooved mammals, they don't actually possess hooves.

superboy, Is it a gnu?

#11 - yes its a Gnu!

Thanks! And what's gnu with you?

Well, I happen to be thinking of an animal.

Is it a mammal?

No, it is not a mammal.

Well, neither do elephants, rhinos or camels compared to a horse, but they're listed as 'hoofed' animals, as well.
How am I supposed to know the limits in your definitions?

Is this animal aquatic?

Candlelight, the definition of hooves is that the creature walks on what is, anatomically, its fingernails/toenails. Elephants and rhinos may be classified as ungulates, but "ungulate" does not equat to "possessing hooves" precisely. I don't know what listing would actually claim elephants and rhinos (which walk on the flat palms/soles of their limbs) are hooved. Camels, on the other hand, are halfway hooved.

In any case, ys, the animal is aquatic.

Is it a dolphin?

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Ungulate
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous - Recent

Llamas, which have two toes, are artiodactyls -- "even toed" ungulates.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Eutheria
(unranked): Ungulatomorpha
Superorder: Ungulata
Orders & Clades
Order Perissodactyla
Eparctocyona
Cetartiodactyla
Order Cetacea
Order Artiodactyla

Ungulates (meaning roughly "being hoofed" or "hoofed animal") are several groups of mammals, most of which use the tips of their toes, usually hoofed, to sustain their whole body weight while moving. They make up several orders of mammals, of which six to eight survive. There is some dispute as to whether Ungulata is a cladistic (evolution-based) group, or merely a phenetic group or folk taxon (similar, but not necessarily related), because not all ungulates appear as closely related as once believed. Ungulata was formerly considered an order which has since been split into:

Perissodactyla (odd-toed ungulates),
Artiodactyla (even-toed ungulates),
Tubulidentata (aardvarks),
Hyracoidea (hyraxes),
Sirenia (dugongs and manatees), and
Proboscidea (elephants).

That's as far as I got for that earlier posting (I eliminated the extinct groupings from the top list for this example).
I stopped and went to look up some of those animals.
I knew a dugong was a long shot.

But, it wasn't a completely stupid guess, imo.

By 'aquatic', we've established that the animal lives totally in the water and/or is designed to live mostly in the water (flippers, etc., IIRC, so I hope that's what's meant.
:rolleyes:

Is it a sponge?

Oops, not a mammal so I'll change my guess...it it a type of fish?

It is not a dolphin.

It is not a sponge.

It is a type of fish.

Does it live in the ocean?

is it a Swordfish?

Is it a bottom type of a feeder?

It does not live in the ocean.

It is not a swordfish.

Most species are indeed bottom-feeders.

BTW, Candlelight:

(bolding mine)

"Hoofed" may well be the root word in Latin/Greek that led to the name of the classification "Ungulate" but the term encompasses many animals that lack genuine hooves. The distinction between animals that have hooves and those that don't is, as I said earlier, the portion of their limbs that they walk on (and in the case of manatees and dugongs, whether they have walking limbs at all).

Is it a catfish?