Misc Specific Rodent Species

• rodent species that don't have enough links for their own pages
• links I can't classify
• or links I just haven't sorted yet

Agoutis

• Science moment #84 answers the questionWhat is an Agouti? (Science moments are brought to you by the New England Science Center and WICN Public Radio.)
• While traveling through Costa Rica, Skip Russell photographed some animals including this agouti.
• This jpeg of an Orange-rumped Agouti from the Metro Toronto Zoo comes courtesy of Herman Miller's page of favorite zoo animals.
• You can adopt an agouti from the New England Science Center. Sponsors receive a biography of their chosen animal.

Voles

• At the NAIS , National Atlas Information Service (Service D'Information De L'Atlas National) site you can create a number of specialized maps. Included are maps of the range of the smokey shrew (Sorex fumeus) and the tundra vole (Microtus oeconomus).
• The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service tracks endangered species within the United States. Endangered rodents include the Florida salt marsh vole

Groundhogs (Woodchucks)

• Learn some basic facts fromA Home Page for Woodchucks
• How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? I have no idea but here's a jpeg of a woodchuck brain to look at while you ponder this mystery.
• Visit Willie the groundhog on Wiarton Willie's Homepage. Willie is an albino groundhog from Wiarton Ontario in Canada. He predicts the weather and stars as the mascot of the town's yearly Groundhog's Day festivities. There is even a large statue of Willie.
• Punxsutawney Phil is another weather forecasting rodent. Visit Phil and check out his Quicktime movies.
• Adum Miller's Groundhog Day Homepage is about both the movie Groundhog Day and the celebrations in Punxsutawney.
• This drawing of a groundhog-person by Herman Miller is an example of the style of fantasy creatures called morphs.
• This tongue in cheek groundhog's day page is devoted to "exploitation of America's most undercelebrated holiday." Complete with an archive of Groundhog's Day cards from years past.
• Groundhog day is February 2nd, have you made plans yet?

Misc

• This jpeg of a mara comes from Herman Miller's page of favorite zoo animals.
• The Infinite Difursity page is devoted to the Mizarian rodent people of the planet Striizarait. Drawn by Herman Miller
• Nutrias are big aquatic rodents. Here is a picture of Toro the nutria, and another picture from the ZooNet Image Archives
• A jpeg of a nutria from the picture area on Southern Poland's WWW Server
• A striped ground squirrel or Eastern chipmunk from an O'Reilly book cover
• Jumping jerboas! It's another great animal cover from O'Reilly graced by two jerboas . (Networking Personal Computers with TCP/IP)
• O'Reilly computer books are famous for the various animals on the covers. Now they are selling T shirts too. You can order a shirt with jerboas (from the cover of Networking Personal Computers with TCP/IP) or a shirt with three bobacs, a type a asian marmot (from the cover of Managing Internet Information Services).
• A short article about porcupines from Rainbow, an online kids magazine. (And another one)
• David Nagorsen focuses mostly on small mammals in British Columbia. Among other things he is a member of the Vancouver Island Marmot Recovery Team and a member of the Rodent Specialist Group, Species Survival Commission, IUCN.
• The Vias took a picture of some arctic ground squirrels on their trip through Denali National Park.
• The National Academy Press carries a book called Microlivestock: Little-Known Small Animals with a Promising Economic Future, which discusses raising many different animals (including a number of rodent species).
• The Mammal Slide Library includes a number of rodent slides for sale. (There are descriptions but no pictures on the web site.)
• A page on fossils of the Eocene-Oligocene rodent Ischyromys is managed by Professor Timothy H. Heaton
• jpeg of a rodent (species not given) from the MVZ mammal collection
• The catalog of sound recordings in the collection of the Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics lists a number of rodent sounds on the mammals page. (Actual sounds are not online.)
• The Etc site includes a page devoted to California ground squirrels (Otospermophilus beecheyi).
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• more Degus
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