• Recipient of the Palaeontological Association's Golden Trilobite Award (2011)
  
• "Website of the Week" on Voice of America - 8 July 2008
• Featured in Science magazine's NETWATCH column - 23 February 2007 (NETWATCH: On the Hoof. Science 315: 1059a)

UltimateUngulate.com is designed to provide reliable information and pictures of the world's ungulates to the global online community. These pages have been created for educational use, and their use and distribution (with proper credit) is encouraged.

Brent Huffman (BSc, CIG), is a zoologist from Toronto, Canada.  In addition to writing for ultimateungulate.com, he has contributed to several publications including (most recently) the landmark Handbook of the Mammals of the World, Volume 2: Hoofed Mammals (2011, Lynx Edicions - species accounts for the tribes Neotragini, Reduncini, and Cephalophini, plus Gazella cuvieri) and the upcoming textbook Zookeeping: An Introduction to the Science and Technology (in press, University of Chicago Press - chapter: "Hoofstock Husbandry and Care"). Other credits include consulting for the BBC's "Life of Mammals" series, authoring articles on the management of captive ungulates for several professional organizations, and photographic contributions to numerous scientific articles, popular publications, and stamp issues.

Brent holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Zoology (Honours) from the University of Guelph (Ontario, Canada). He is an avid wildlife photographer, and has traveled to numerous exotic locales in search of rare ungulate species, including India (2011), Ethiopia (2010), and Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, and Cameroon (2003-2004).

Brent is a member of numerous zoological organizations, including ASM (American Society of Mammalogists), AAZK (American Association of Zoo Keepers), and AZA (Association of Zoos and Aquariums), and is an active participant with the AZA Ungulate TAGs (Taxon Advisory Groups).  He is currently employed at the Toronto Zoo, working in the Australasia Pavilion with a variety of taxa: marsupials, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, insects, and jellies - but no ungulates.

The idea for the "Ultimate Ungulate Page" originated in March of 1996, when my personal experiences finding information and pictures of unusual animals online was far more difficult than I thought it should be. The empty niche of an all-encompassing ungulate site was readily apparent ... and so UltimateUngulate stepped in to fill the void. Originally, the species pages focussed primarily on photographs, but in time this goal was expanded into providing information on these species, first with brief statistics and slowly growing to include increasingly detailed accounts. The site eventually outgrew its fledgling location (http://www.pathcom.com/~dhuffman/), and on 1 January 2000, the Ultimate Ungulate Page became established at its current address: www.ultimateungulate.com.

To streamline browsing and make information more accessible, the accounts for individual species are being reorganized to include tabbed browsing. Each species will have up to three tabs, providing ready access to brief information ("Quick Facts" - the default page for each species), scientifically written and referenced accounts ("Detailed Information" - not present for all species), and a list of the literature used in the creation of the pages as well as a list of other resources available ("References").

"A picture is worth a thousand words" and numerous images of each species are provided when possible. However, because of the rarity of some of these photographs, all images have been branded with the photographer's name and the website address to ensure that credit to the photographer remains with the image. Unwatermarked images are available on request; alterations to remove the credit line may seem innocent, but is a form of property theft.

Maps used to delineate ranges of each species are templated from the outlines provided at http://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/world.htm