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ASM | Mammals of Kansas
(Y) 29 barbed quills; prefer wooded and forested areas Plains pocket gopher Geomys bursarius common statewide (except southeast corner) 690 highly fossorial; upper incisors grooved Geomyidae Yellow-faced pocket gopher Pappogeomys castanops uncommon southwestern 1/4 691, 692(A) 338 highly fossorial; upper incisors have a single groove Heteromyidae Hispid pocket mouse ...
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ASM | Mammals of Ohio
Erethizon dorsatum uncommon statewide 83, 870(Y) 29 barbed quills; prefer wooded and forested areas Geomyidae Plains pocket gopher Geomys bursarius common statewide 690 highly fossorial; upper incisors are grooved Northern pocket gopher Thomomys talpoides common southwestern & northwestern panhandle 688, 689(A) 618 highly fossorial; upper incisors are smooth Heteromyidae Hispid pocket mouse ...
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ASM | Mammals of North Dakota
(Y) 29 barbed quills; prefer wooded and forested areas Geomyidae Plains pocket gopher Geomys bursarius common eastern 1/6 690 highly fossorial; upper incisors are grooved Northern pocket gopher Thomomys talpoides common western 5/6, northeast corner 688, 689(A) highly fossorial; upper incisors are smooth Heteromyidae Hispid pocket mouse Chaetodipus ...
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Elephants
Elephants have large heads, small eyes and large fanlike ears. Their teeth include the second pair of upper incisors that develop into their large tusks, which continue to grow throughout the animal's lifetime. The long, flexible and muscular trunk is really the elephants lengthened nose and upper lip. (By the way, the name "trunk" appears to be based on a misunderstanding of the French ...
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Mooseworld, Moose Biology with Kristine Bontaites
I am somewhat familiar with moose, habitats and diet. But, since moose are cud-chewers and lack upper incisors how do they seem to be able to pretty much "clean-cut" reasonably large woody twigs? ... the type of canine teeth possessed by elk. 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 ...
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The Thylacine Museum - Thylacine Quiz
In 1966, a virtually intact mummy of a thylacine was found in a cave in - a) Victoria b) Western Australia c) New South Wales d) Tasmania 6) The total number of upper incisors in the thylacine is - a) 4 b) 6 c) 2 d) 8 7) The bounty offered on thylacines by the Tasmanian government was discontinued in - a) ...
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The Thylacine Museum - The Natural History of Thylacinus cynocephalus: Thylacine Anatomy (Dentition)
Characteristics of the adult dentition are described by Archer (1976c). . The thylacine's upper incisors. In carnivorous species such as the thylacine, their primary function is that of stripping ... The molars of the thylacine are adapted to slicing and crushing. The protocone of the upper molars is reduced, bearing a slightly trenchant posterior edge, and the metacone is quite enlarged ...
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3D Image Gallery - Ukaliq: The Arctic Hare
Arctic hare. See the image in 3D: Flash version (500 Kb) Pointstream 3DImagePlayer version (880 Kb) (for Windows only) Close-up of upper incisors. See the image in 3D: Flash version (500 Kb) Pointstream 3DImagePlayer version (880 Kb) (for Windows only) Dorset carving in walrus ivory of an Arctic hare. See the image in 3D: Flash version (180 Kb) Pointstream ...
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NvWF Places - Red Rock Canyon Mamals
Unlike rodents, rabbits and hares have two pair of upper incisors, one right behind the other. Thus, they are not classified as rodents, but as Lagamorpha, literally "animals of rabbit-like form." Rabbits differ from hare in that their young are born naked and blind, while young ...
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Megaladapidae : sportive lemurs
Megaladapis probably fed on leaves; its upper incisors were replaced by a horny pad as in some ungulate herbivores. It may also have had a mobile snout. Zygomatic arches were massive, the braincase was small, and the auditory bullae were flat. Its hands and feet ...
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