Do any animals/creatures have an odd number of limbs?
Because most multicellular animals are bilaterally symmetrical, it follows they are likely to have an even number of limbs. As others have stated, it is a different case with radially symmetrical animals. However, many species do, in effect, move using an odd number of limbs. Howler and spider monkeys, for example, use their prehensile tails in addition to their arms and legs; kangaroos and others use their two legs plus tail as a tripod to rest on. Also, most four-limbed animals have an odd numbers of digits on the ends of their even number of limbs (those that have two or four digits have ‘lost’ three or one, respectively, in the course of evolution). Hope this helps. ps. Remember Rolf Harris and his friend Jake the Peg, with his extra leg, teedle-um, teedle-um?
