What animals have 3 legs?

Apart from parrots, there are no known species where three limbs are standard, although the movement of some macropods such as kangaroos, which can alternate between resting their weight on their muscular tails and their two hind legs and hop on all three, may be an example of tripedal locomotion in animals.
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Who is the animal of 3 legs?

Believe it or not, kangaroos have three legs! This discovery was made in 2014 by a team from Canada's Simon Fraser University. They corralled red kangaroos through a chamber that measured the downward forces they exerted as they walked.
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Do any animals have 5 legs?

It turns out kangaroos may be the world's only “pentapedal” animals, effectively having five legs. Before you start taking a close look at stills of Skippy the bush kangaroo, it's not a secret limb – the fifth “leg” is the animal's tail.
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Do any animals have 1 leg?

Moving using only one leg is known as unipedal movement. Many bivalvia and nearly all gastropoda molluscs have evolved only one foot. Through accidents (i.e. amputation) or birth abnormalities it is also possible for an animal or a human being to end up with only a single leg.
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Is it possible to have 3 legs?

In an extremely rare occurrence, a woman delivered a child with three legs on Tuesday. Doctors at the Jangaon hospital, where the baby was born, said the third leg cast some ambiguity over the newborn's gender.
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Do flamingos have 2 legs?

Fundamentally, flamingos stand on one leg to avoid muscular fatigue. “It's an energy-saving activity, basically,” explains Dr Paul Rose, zoologist at the University of Exeter. “Believe it or not, flamingos are more stable for long periods of time on one leg than they are on two.
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Do snakes have legs?

Snakes do not have legs, though some species (pythons and boas) have a vestigial pelvic girdle and two vestigial legs which are externally visible as spurs on either side of the vent.
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Do any animals have 12 legs?

Symphylans have more than 200 species, with the young having 12 limbs while the adults grow up to 24. They lack eyes, and therefore, their sense organs come in the form of long antennae. These arthropods are similar to centipedes; however, they are smaller and shiny.
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Does any animal have 20 legs?

Centipedes are long, thin arthropods with one pair of legs per body segment. Despite "centi" in their name, which implies 100 legs, centipedes can have fewer than 20 legs to more than 300 legs, but they always have an odd number of pairs of legs.
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Do any animals have 10 legs?

The Decapoda or decapods (literally "ten-footed") are an order of crustaceans within the class Malacostraca, including many familiar groups, such as crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp and prawns.
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Are there any 7 legged animals?

A seven-legged lamb has been born in New Zealand. Although the six-day old bleats like a healthy animal, its abnormalities mean it is unlikely to survive.
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What creature has 3 legs and no brain?

#12 Animals That Don't Have a Brain: Sea Urchins

The creature has an untold number of legs and controls feeding with its water vascular system.
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What animal has 3 hearts?

An octopus's three hearts have slightly different roles. One heart circulates blood around the body, while the other two pump it past the gills, to pick up oxygen.
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Do any animals have 3 eyes?

Short Answer: Yes, but it is more commonly called a parietal eye, and is only found in certain species of lizards, sharks, bony fish, salamanders and frogs. It typically doesn't see, but is instead photoreceptive in nature.
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Do fish have legs?

But if you look at a fish, its “legs” are just a tiny bit of tail. If you were a fish that tried to walk on land, you would have to pull yourself forward with the big muscles in your arms and chest. The muscles in your fishy hips and legs would be much too small and weak to move your forward.
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Do lizards have legs?

Although most lizards have long tails and move around on four legs, a few are legless and snakelike. There are even lizards that can glide through the air on winglike flaps of skin.
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Do snakes fart?

Why Do Snakes Fart? Snake farting is not common because they are strict carnivores, and most of the gas that we humans experience comes from consuming vegetable material. Snakes don't even have the gut bacteria to break down plants to cause the gas.
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Is flamingo poop pink?

“No, flamingo poop is not pink,” Mantilla says. “Flamingo poop is the same grayish-brown and white as other bird poop is. When flamingo chicks are really young, their poop may look slightly orange but this is due to them processing the yolk they lived off of in the egg.”
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Do ostriches stand on one leg?

In long-legged birds the body is far from the ground which may require special adaptations to keeping balance. Snapping mechanisms which serve to "lock" the intertarsal joint when standing are reviewed. Such a mechanism is obviously present in the ostrich which does, however, not stand on one leg.
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Do storks stand on one leg?

White storks ride on air thermals while migrating, but will stand on one leg when resting on the ground.
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How many legs does a millipede have?

Though no known millipede species has 1,000 legs, common species of this burrowing arthropod have between 40 and 400 legs – more than enough to move the millipede forwards with impressive heft.
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