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The Giant Panda
This allows them to direct bamboo stalks to their mouths where they strip off bites with their incisor teeth. Pandas digest about 20% of what they eat. (Cattle, for example, digest 60% of their intake) To compensate for their low quality diet pandas select only the most nutritious parts of the bamboo, they eat rapidly and ...
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Woodchucks in Kansas
Kansas. Their gnawing activity wears down their constantly-growing incisor teeth. They live in underground dens, where they hibernate in winter. While hibernating, their heart rate, breathing and body temperatures are greatly reduced for 4-6 months. They may lose up to half their body weight ...
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Beavers in Kansas
Kansas. They use trees, other vegetation and mud to build dams and sometimes their dome-shaped lodges. Most Kansas beavers live in bank burrows along streams and rivers. Beavers have large, orange incisor teeth and strong jaws. They have large, webbed hind feet, a horizontally flattened, scaly tail and coarse brown fur covering gray ...
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Commensal Rodents
Other than the differences listed, the Norway and roof rats are similar. Both are good swimmers; because their front incisor teeth grow an average of 5 inches a year, they gnaw almost constantly to keep them worn down. They can fall 50 feet ...
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Animal Bones: identifying animal remains
Differentiation of Mule Deer and White-Tailed Deer by Dave Oates of Nebraska Game and Parks Skulls Skulls of North Dakota Mammals---U.S. Geological Survey Deer A deer skull Description: Note the absence of upper incisor teeth. Photo Credits: Dallas Virchow Another view. Description: This top view shows the distinct suture joints between bones of the cranium. ...
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Beaver, Castor canadensis, damage management and control information
It has a valvular nose and ears, and lips that close behind the four large incisor teeth. Each of the four feet have five digits, with the hind feet webbed between digits and a ... warn others of danger by abruptly slapping the surface of the water. The beaver's large front (incisor) teeth, bright orange on the front, grow continuously throughout its life. These incisors are beveled so that ...
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Mooseworld, Moose Biology with Kristine Bontaites
The second method is more accurate than the first but the first ... Their canines are just smaller versions of the other incisors. Aboriginal people made scant use of moose teeth. Nova Scotia Micmacs used them as dice, Carrier women used them as flaking devices, the eastern Cree ...
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Thylacoleo - Introducing Thylacoleo carnifex (page 1)
Most of these animals have an essentially herbivorous diet. Thylacoleo's cheek-teeth are dominated by enormous, blade-like third premolars, which work in a way similar to the ... from these sources'. Additional problems with the carnivore hypothesis arose from an examination of the large incisor teeth set together at the front of the jaw, forming a structure similar to the beak ...
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Thylacoleo - Introducing Thylacoleo carnifex (page 2)
The enormous upper incisor teeth are well preserved and plainly visible in this specimen of a Thylacoleo skull. The ... indicate an older diversification of these fascinating marsupial carnivores (Archer and Dawson, 1982). Presently, only teeth, skull and jaw fragments are known. While much smaller in dimension than T. carnifex, species ...
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African Elephant
The trunk is also used for smell, touch and in drinking, greeting or throwing dust for dust baths. In both sexes, the two incisor teeth of the upper jaw grow to form tusks, and it is for this ivory, used at one time in the manufacture of piano keys, ...
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