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The genus Gomphotherium, ancestor of mammoths and elephants
Gomphotherium had both upper and lower incisors (upper tusk bore a prominent, straight enamel band), the skull was elongate and low and ... swamps where they used their tusks to dig or scrape up the vegetation. Gomphotherium angustidens, lower jaw from Austria. Nat. History Museum Vienna. (Photo © Jutta Kirchner, Vienna Zoo) Fossils from ...
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Thylacoleo - The Feeding Habits of Thylacoleo (page 2)
I2/ is small but I3/ possesses a large crown which ... for the mandibular first molar. In the lower jaw, the single pair of recumbent incisors are positioned with their tips posterior to I1/ ... four convergent first incisors. Wear facets exhibit that there was occlusion between I/1 and the three maxillary incisors which would allow ...
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PRIMATES
In some, including most strepsirhines (see next paragraph), the lower incisors form a toothcomb used in grooming and perhaps foraging. In the aye-aye (Daubentoniidae), the incisors are reduced to 1 in each jaw ...
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Daubentoniidae : the aye-aye
The adult incisors are tremendously enlarged and evergrowing. Only their anterior surface bears enamel, so they self-sharpen as they wear in the same manner as rodent incisors. Posterior to the incisors is a diastema. The cheekteeth are flattened and have indistinct cusps. The ...
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Hand rearing a red squirrel litter
Weight 10-15 gm. During week 1 Ear lobes start to project. Lower incisors felt as soft lumps. Pigments appear on back at 5-6 ... Lower gums swollen. During week 3 Tail becomes furred at 16 days. Short and dense body hair at 19 days. At week 3 Ears fringed with hair. Lower incisors ... 3mm tufts at tips. Upper incisors felt as soft lumps by 34 days. During week 6 Upper incisors erupt at 37-41 days. During ...
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The Feral Sheep of Campbell Island
The impression ... but it does appear that the constant wrenching off of the tough vegetation draws the incisors forward, gradually opening a gap between them and the upper jaw pad. This appears to ...
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EEK! - Snug in the Snow - Hibernation Story
Fahrenheit to 38 degrees Fahrenheit. And, the woodchuck's incisors, which grow continuously and are kept short by all the gnawing it does, quit growing ... , raccoons, opossums are also in this group. These animals breathe a little more slowly and lower their body temperature a few degrees while sleeping, but they wake up to forage between ...
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EEK! - Critter Corner - The White-Tailed Deer
By the time they are about 18 months old, permanent teeth will have replaced the baby teeth. An adult will have six incisors and two canines in the lower front, six premolars and six molars in the lower back and the same in the upper back. A ...
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Proboscidea, the mammal order of Trunk animals
They had second incisors enlarged into short tusks, in upper and lower jaws Evolution Timetable Era Genera Holocene Loxodonta, Elephas, Mammut Pleistocene Mammuthus ...
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Mountain beaver (Aplodontia rufa) control and management
The habit of stacking cut vegetation at burrow openings has been considered a means to lower its moisture content before taking it into humid food caches or relatively dry nest chambers ... . Young are born blind and hairless, weighing about 3/4 ounce (20 g). They develop incisors at about 30 days and are weaned at about 8 weeks. Young animals are often ...
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