Animal kingdom

Grouping of all living beings with more or less complex organs, with which they move about and feed themselves; the body of knowledge about them.

RODENTS AND LAGOMORPHS

Rodents have one pair of constantly growing sharp incisors used for feeding; lagomorphs have two pairs.

Herbivorous or omnivorous vertebrate (over 2,000 species) with four limbs, a body covered in hair and sharp incisors that grow constantly.


morphology of a rat	skeleton of a rat

Unlike a rodent’s jaws, those of a lagomorph have a second pair of (nonfunctional) incisors on the maxilla.


rodent’s jaw: rat	lagomorph’s jaw: rabbit

Lagomorphs: small four-legged herbivorous vertebrates (about 60 species) with dense fur, a short or absent tail and three pairs of incisors.