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Seven elk run from the left to the right in a grassy area.

Trivia

Ready to wow your friends at trivia night?

You love weird facts, and we do, too! We’ve collected some of our favorite odd facts about the ungulates we all love.

Schematic of force being applied and dissipating in bighorn sheep skull.

Why don’t bighorn sheep get concussions when ramming their heads together? 

Mule deer mouth (left) and bison mouth (right).

Why are ungulate mouths so different? 

Pronghorn blastocysts duking it out!

What’s up with pronghorn? 

Ungulates pooping.

How much do ungulates poop? 

Heart-leafed arnica leaves growing around a moose skull.

What happens to all those gut piles? 

A female pronghorn watches over a herd of young pronghorn.

How do ungulates take care of their kids?

A misty grass plain is shown, dotted with brown bison.

Which ungulate wears pantaloons? 

A bighorn ram with a full horn curl lifts his upper lip to scoop pheromones in the air into his nostrils. Light snow is falling, and the area around him is covered in snow.

What’s up with that lip curl?

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