Is there a natural 'odd legged' animal?

[durrson]

We have 2 legs,
Cats have 4 Legs,
Beatles have 6 Legs,
Spiders have 8 Legs,

Are there any creatures which have an odd number of legs?

[Kozmic Blues]

Yes Read This-

http://science.enotes.com/science-fact-finder/ animal-world/how-many-pairs-legs-does-centiped e-have

[smiffy65]

yes but they dont have an odd number of legs they have an odd number of pairs of legs, ie 15 pairs of legs equal 30 legs

[smiffy65]

unless its had one amputated sorry(lol)

[lankeela]

Heather Mills?

[gen2]

Starfish (5)

[Kozmic Blues]

Its natural, a dog born with three legs .

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200503/30/en g20050330_178701.html

[Kozmic Blues]

gen2 good one!! But do starfish have arms or legs? It's debatable.

I think they have arms.

[smiffy65]

yes they have arms

[RATTER15]

Or tentacles!!

[smiffy65]

no its definitly artms

[smiffy65]

arms as well

[wolf63]

any animal with odd legs - unless it is lost by accident - would topple over. It is the fight of the fittest.

[Noweia]

Snails have one foot - does that count?

[Quizmonkey]

Beatles has 8 legs incidentally; beetles have 6.

[durrson]

Thank you everyone!!

[bix67]

Jake The Peg

[CrazyWolfman]

Gastropods like slugs and snails walk, by definition on a single muscular foot, however a foot is not necessarily a leg, so they don't really count.

Others that seem eligible are dolphin and so on. Although technically speaking they have three limbs but four legs, two of them are no longer visible and two have been modified to become flippers (although they are all derivatives of the pentadactyl limb and contain the same number of bones as almost any other animal's legs). The tail is just that, a tail, which is an extension of the spine so that isn't a leg either.

With reference to the starfish idea it's not a bad idea, but as Smiffy65 rightly says they are arms not legs. But, just for the record they do actually have feet as well. Hundreds of tube like thingies on the underside known as podia. Sadly though, regardless of the numbers of them, these are still feet and not legs.

In short my opinion is that there is no known, natural species of animal which has an odd number of legs (amputation aside). But that's not to say we won't discover one in the future.

Besides that there really ought to be an animal called a monopede (like a millipede except with one foot), or more correctly a monopod but that name's already taken. It would be funny but it probably wouldn't last long according to Neo-Darwinian Natural Selection.

[gen2]

Those of you that complained that a starfish has arms and not legs, consider this:
What do you get on arms? Ans. Hands.
What do you get on legs? Ans. Feet.

The 5 'limbs' of a starfish each have hundreds of tube FEET
therefore, by defibition, the limbs must be LEGS.

QED

[durrson]

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