List of Chinese terrestrial ungulates

Ungulates are mammals which are endothermic amniote animals distinguished from reptiles and birds by the possession of hair,[a] three middle ear bones, mammary glands, and a neocortex (a region of the brain).

The mammalian brain regulates body temperature and the circulatory system, including the four-chambered heart.

The mammals include the largest animals on the planet, the rorquals and some other whales, as well as some of the most intelligent, such as elephants, some primates and some cetaceans.

The basic body type is a four-legged land-borne animal, but some mammals are adapted for life at sea, in the air, in the trees, or on two legs.

China for the purposes of this list article refers to a collection of geographic and ecological areas, now primarily politically identified with a modern nation state.

Human uses in China for the terrestrial ungulates include food from flesh or milk, fuel from dung, cloth and leather from hair (or, wool) and hide, religious expression, draft animals for carriage, battle technology, subjects of plastic, graphic, written, and spoken art.

This includes: An odd-toed ungulate is a mammal with hooves that feature an odd number of toes on the rear feet.

Odd-toed ungulates compose the order Perissodactyla (Greek: περισσός, perissós, "uneven", and δάκτυλος, dáktylos, "finger/toe").

As domestication lead to breeding larger specimens, horses were used for drawing chariots, wagons, and later as mounts.

The best known, E. sibiricum was the size of a woolly mammoth and is thought to have had a large, thick horn on its forehead; which was used for defense, attracting mates, driving away competitors, sweeping snow from the grass in winter, and digging for water, and for extracting plant roots from their growth medium.