Obviously the number of toes in whales is a somewhat moot point

[perlmonger]

Having been reminded of Hilaire Belloc's A Moral Alphabet (of which I no longer have a copy) by this posting from ursulav, I searched on Goole for any references to it and found this wonderful entry on Cetartiodactyla.

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[ramtops.livejournal.com]

Moral:
Child, if you have a rummy kind of name,
Remember to be thankful for the same.

didn't work for me, sadly ...