Definition, Betydelse, Synonymer & Anagram | Engelska ordet RODENT

Definition av RODENT

1. gnagande
2. (zoologi) gnagare

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• The capybara or greater capybara (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) is the largest living rodent, native to South America.
• A gopher, also known as a "pocket gopher" (family Geomyidae), is a burrowing rodent native to North America and Central America.
• Generally, when a muroid rodent is discovered, its common name includes the term mouse if it is smaller, or rat if it is larger.
• The earliest known fossilized squirrels date from the Eocene epoch, and among other living rodent families, the squirrels are most closely related to the mountain beaver and dormice.
• The black rat (Rattus rattus), also known as the roof rat, ship rat, or house rat, is a common long-tailed rodent of the stereotypical rat genus Rattus, in the subfamily Murinae.
• Thought to have originated in northern China and neighbouring areas, this rodent has now spread to all continents except Antarctica, and is the dominant rat in Europe and much of North America.
• Manx are prized as skilled hunters, and thus have often been sought by farmers with rodent problems, and been a preferred ship's cat breed.
• Although its external appearance is generally that of a long-nosed mouse, a shrew is not a rodent, as mice are.
• The groundhog (Marmota monax), also known as the woodchuck, is a rodent of the family Sciuridae, belonging to the group of large ground squirrels known as marmots.
• The dusky hopping mouse (Notomys fuscus), is a small rodent endemic to Australia, inhabiting desert regions characterised by sand dunes.
• Some population units are threatened by poaching, prey base decline due to rodent control programs, and habitat fragmentation as a result of mining and infrastructure projects.
• Dramatic fossils of large mammals have been extricated, but the asphalt also preserves microfossils: wood and plant remnants, rodent bones, insects, mollusks, dust, seeds, leaves, and pollen grains.
• Caviidae, the cavy family, is composed of rodents native to South America and includes the domestic guinea pig, wild cavies, and the largest living rodent, the capybara.
• The plains viscacha can strip grassland used to graze livestock; this has caused ranchers to consider the rodent a pest species.
• Cowpox, a rodent disease that can infect cattle, and is also transmissible to humans; used for vaccination against smallpox.
• A dormouse is a rodent of the family Gliridae (this family is also variously called Myoxidae or Muscardinidae by different taxonomists).
• Elanus species are primarily rodent hunters, searching for prey from a perch or often hovering like kestrels.
• The golden hamster or Syrian hamster (Mesocricetus auratus) is a rodent belonging to the hamster subfamily, Cricetinae.
• The pacarana (Dinomys branickii) is a rare and slow-moving hystricognath rodent indigenous to South America.
• The songs are commonly associated with an ancient Hakka dance which entails wearing a rodent (primarily a rat) pelt on the dancers head while moving seductively throughout the room, telling the story of the great migration.

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