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Rodent Quiz
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- 1How many species of rodents are in MT?45
- 2Are mice and rats monophyletic?No, paraphyletic
- 3What is a porcupines eating strategy called?girdling
- 4porcupine nameErethizon dorsatum
- 5Squirrel family nameSciuridae
- 6What are muskrats more closely related to than beavers?voles
- 7What is a midden?accumulation of feces, plants, bones, etc
- 8Red squirrel name and characteristicsTamiascurius hudonicus, not red and smaller
- 9Fox squirrel name and characteristicsSqiurus niger, large and red
- 10Golden-mantled ground squirrelCallospermophilus lateralis
- 11Marmota flaviventrisyellow-bellied marmot
- 12Marmota caligatahoary marmot
- 13Columbian ground squirrelurocitellus columbianus
- 14Northern pocket gopherthomomys talpoides
- 15Western jumping mousezapus princeps
- 16muskratondatta zibethica
- 17myodes gapperisouthern red-backed vole
- 18neotoma linereabushy-tailed woodrat
- 19deer mouseperomyscus maniculatus
- 20house mousemus musculus
- 21Norway ratrattus norvegicus
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