Horse breeds

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