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The Prehensile-tailed Porcupine (Coendou prehensilis), also celebrated as the Brazilian porcupine, is a charming, slow-moving, and nocturnal arboreal rodent native to the dense tropical rainforest canopies of South America. Famous worldwide for its bulbous pink nose,...
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The Springhare (Pedetes capensis), also celebrated as the South African springhaas, is an extraordinary, bipedal jumping rodent native to the vast, open savannas and dry grasslands of southern Africa. Despite its common name and startling physical resemblance to a...
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The Short-tailed Chinchilla (Chinchilla chinchilla, formerly Chinchilla brevicaudata), also known as the royal or Peruvian chinchilla, is an exceptionally rare, compact, and critically imperiled rodent native exclusively to the windswept, high-altitude Andean plateaus...
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The Edible Dormouse (Glis glis), also famously known as the fat dormouse, is the largest member of the dormouse family (Gliridae) native to the deciduous forests of Europe. Easily recognized by its bushy, squirrel-like silver-grey tail, soft dense fur, and large dark...
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The Yellow-bellied Marmot (Marmota flaviventris), affectionately known throughout the American West as the rock chuck, is a stout, heavy-bodied sciurid rodent that rules the windswept talus fields and alpine slopes of the western cordilleras. Easily recognized by its...
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The Hazel Dormouse (Muscardinus avellanarius), commonly known as the common dormouse, is an exquisite, arboreal rodent famous for its rich golden-caramel fur, enormous dark nocturnal eyes, and thickly furred tail. As the sole living representative of the genus...
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The Alpine Marmot (Marmota marmota) is a heavy-set, burrow-dwelling sciurid rodent exquisitely evolved to survive the extreme climatic conditions of Europe’s highest mountain chains. Occupying open alpine tundra and scree-strewn meadows above the timberline...
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OverviewThe Mountain Viscacha (Lagidium viscacia), famed globally for its permanently sleepy, serene facial expression and rabbit-like silhouette, is a specialized hystricognath rodent belonging to the chinchilla family Chinchillidae. Endemic to the harsh,...
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The Mountain Beaver (Aplodontia rufa), known locally as the boomer, sewellel, or ground bear, is not a true beaver at all, but rather the most biologically primitive living rodent on planet Earth. Belonging to its own monotypic family (Aplodontiidae), this stout,...
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The Lowland Paca (Cuniculus paca), often termed the spotted paca or gibnut, is a large, stout-bodied hystricognath rodent native to the lush tropical rainforests and river valleys of the Neotropics. Recognized by its glossy reddish-brown coat patterned with three to...
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