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Rodents
All rodents have one upper jaw and one lower jaw set of two continuously growing front teeth that must be worn down by gnawing. The order's smallest members are the 2.4 inch/6 centimeter African pygmy mouse and Baluchistan pygmy jerboa. Questions typically refer to the order's laboratory contributions to scientific advances, important representatives, geographic ranges, and environmental roles in seed dispersion and soil food web life.
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What is the difference between true hibernation and torpor?
True hibernation is a process where an animal allows it's body temperature to drop to a few degrees above ambient temperature, and heart rate to drop too. Mainly in rodents, and smaller animals, they periodically awake to eat from a cache of food, deficate and drink. Bears slow their heart rate, but only drop their body temperature a few degrees, and they don't eat or drink at all during this period, so many scientists use other terms such as winter lethergy, etc instead. Torpor doesn't seem to be voluntary, not something for which the animal prepared. Torpor is a response of some small animals when they get too cold. It's a bit like passing out in response to being cold. When I used to trap ground squirrels for a job, if the morning was chilly, ground squirrels in our traps would be in torpor - they appeared dead, no response at all. I'd put them in my jacket pocket, and as my body temperature warmed them, they'd wake up to jump out and run home. I've also seen small warblers go into torpor too. Again, they look dead, but if you blow on them, they'd perk up.
Agouti
Can you give degus baths in water?
It's probably not a good idea, I did it to mine once and he did not like it at all... If you do, just dry them off before they get chilled.
A vole is a small rodent resembling a mouse but with a stouter body, a shorter hairy tail, a slightly rounder head, and smaller ears and eyes. There are approximately 70 species of voles; they are sometimes known as meadow mice or field mice in North America
What is a habitat of a beaver?
Weasel is a common name for about 12 species of mammals in the genus Mustela of the Mustelidae family. They are found throughout North America, Asia, Africa, South America, and Europe.
It depend on which species of weasel you are referring to, for example: The long-tailed weasel lives in a wide-variety of habitats including woodlands, thickets, open areas and farmland. It usually lives near a water source.
IN EUROPE THE WEASEL CAN LIVE IN A WIDE RANGE OF HABITATS. FROM FARMLAND, FIELD EDGES, SCRUB, WOODLAND, RIVERINE, MARSH, HEATHER TOPPED HILLS, TO WOODED VALLEYS, LOCH SHORES, TO COASTAL SAND DUNES, FARMLAND TO URBAN GARDENS.
ANYWHERE THERE IS SUFFICIENT FOOD THERE WILL BE WEASELS.
Weasels live in underground areas and in places they can't be found
if weasels live in underground areas and in places they cannot be found, then how did we ever discover them in the first place? Because they have to come out to get food
Weasels cannot live at high altitudes because 1: it's to cold. 2:there is no food or water source. 3:weasels wouldn't bother to live up there, above the treeline.
A weasel's habitats are stone walls, underground, hedges, farmland, and in the woods.
OK, that's that, case closed.
Can guinea pigs eat salty wheels?
We have has guinea pigs for years and we give them salt wheels, all animals need some salt and they only eat vegetable and pellets which aren't high in salt content. So yes, guinea pigs can have salt wheels.
What do mice do when they are near you?
From what I've seen, mice normally run away after a person gets to close to them.
Was ist das kleinste Nagetier der welt?
wie heist das kleinste Nagetier
The Baluchistan pygmy jerboa, or the dwarf three-toed jerboa
Mice will eat just about anything including fruits, grasses, insects, nuts, cheese, sunflower seeds, berries, wheat grains, peanut butter, and bread. And just to be more specific, they even sometimes eat soap and chew on matches, (which sometimes causes fires). Mice have sometimes been very annoying to farmers by eating their wheat and corn. Mice absolutely, positively, no question about it, LOVE corn.
Mice eat just about anything because a) They are rodents, and rodents learn to live on anything they can find, and b) All this food is plentiful in a house, so mice can have a great food supply all year round.
Yum Yum! :)
Yes. I Recently went away and i had to leave my guinea pigs behind. i recommend ALOT of food in their cage (not too much though) and if the weather is hot where you are, it is best if you get a friend to check water every 2nd or 3rd day. Hope this helps!
What defense does the Dusky Hopping Mouse have?
The best defence of the Dusky hopping mouse is its shelter. It digs deep burrows with vertical entrances about 1.5 metres deep, and only three centimetres in width.
South American rodent related to agouti?
Agoutis are closely related to acouchys. Both are members of the Dasyproctidae family. Some specialists classify dasyproctids as a subfamily of the family Agoutidae, which also include pacas.
