Horse Care and Gait

zoology 3: Lesson 7 Rodentia and the Rest

Rodentia:

"rodere"- to gnaw; "dent" -teeth

Beavers

"Beaver dams may be good for nature, but why do beavers build them? In short, a dam creates a body of water that makes a relatively safe neighborhood for a beaver family. Since beavers are very good swimmers but fairly slow on land, deeper water creates a habitat where they can find more protection from bears and other predators.

Beavers are nocturnal but they don't spend all night in the ponds or slow-moving streams created by their dams. Instead, they build lodges -- houses where a beaver couple and their children live. Beavers gather sticks, mud, rocks and other available materials to shape these mound-like structures. A group of lodges forms a beaver colony and houses multiple beaver families." taken from How Stuff Works

Beaver Lodge

Porcupines

Fox Squirrel

The largest of the rodents: Cabybara

Prairie Dog

Other animals in chapter 7

New World Monkeys...Platyrrhini

"Platy" means "flat" in Greek. These monkeys have flat noses with the nostrils pointing out toward the sides of the nose.

The two that we discussed were the marmosets and the tamarins.

Marmosets

The pygmy marmosets are the smallest monkeys in the world

http://nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/primates/facts/factsheets/pygmymarmosets/default.cfm

Tamarin

Primates

Strepsirrhini (wet nosed): Lemurs, Bushbabies, Lorises, and Aye-ayes.


Aye-Aye (Chiromyiformes)






Loris (Lorisformes)



Lemur (Lemuriformes)



Bushbaby (Lorisiformes)

Haplorrhini (dry nosed)

(Tarsiiformes) Tasier

Platyrrhini: The New World Monkeys

These are arboreal- live and spend most of their time in trees, and most
have a prehensile tail

Marmoset



Tamarins

Bartolome de Las Casas

Read Las Casas' Brief Account of the Devastation of the Indies:

http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/bdorsey1/41docs/02-las.html

Chapter 4 Feliform Carnivores

Lions:
http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/Animals/CreatureFeature/Lion

More Carnivora...chapter 3

We are still studying the Order Carnivora. Here are some more families in this order:

family: Ursidae (Ursa is the Latin word for bear)

Brown Bear

http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/Animals/CreatureFeature/Brown-bear

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_Bear

Black Bear

http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/black-bear.html

http://www.americanbear.org/Kids'%20questions.htm

Polar Bear

http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/Animals/CreatureFeature/Polar-bear

http://www.seaworld.org/infobooks/PolarBears/home.html

Sun Bear

http://www.sandiegozoo.org/animalbytes/t-sun_bear.html

Giant Panda

http://members.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/mammals/panda/

http://www.sandiegozoo.org/animalbytes/t-giant_panda.html

family: Mustelidae (weasel family)

http://members.enchantedlearning.com/painting/Mustelids.shtml

Mink

http://members.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/mammals/weasel/Minkprintout.shtml

Badger

Wolverine

http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/wolverine.html

Martens

http://www.wildernessclassroom.com/www/schoolhouse/boreal_library/animals/pine_martin.htm

Ferrets

http://www.caringtogether.com/exotics/ferrets.html

Weasels

http://www.saskschools.ca/~gregory/animals/weasel.html

Otter

http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/Animals/CreatureFeature/River-otter

family: Mephitidae (mephit- foul odor)

Skunks

http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/skunk.html

family: Procyonidae

Raccoons

http://www.enature.com/flashcard/show_flash_card.asp?recordNumber=MA0029

Red Panda

http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/red-panda.html

http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Ailurus_fulgens.html

Olingo

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olingo

Kinkajou

http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/kinkajou.html