What animals are considered to be rodents?

Answer 1

Mice
Rats
Capybaras
Agoutis
Pacas
gophers
guinea pigs
chinchillas
gerbils
hamsters
squirrels
beavers
chipmunks
marmots
porcupine
voles
lemmings
nutria or coypu
springhares
kangaroo rats

Note: rabbits, hares, and pikas are not rodents. they are place in a different order, the Lagomorphs.

Answer 2

If the animal has 4 large front teeth suitable for cutting and gnawing (kind of chisel shaped) and no more teeth readily visible. It does have molars at the back of the jaw too. The front incisors grow continuously as they are worn down by gnawing. the back of the tooth is a little softer than the front, so that the tooth automatically sharpens itself as it wears down.
A rabbit or hare looks like a rodent and the incisors grow continuously like a rodent's teeth, but if you look carefully you can see that it has 6 front incisors instead of 4. Rabbits and hares are pretty close to rodents, and are often lumped in with rodents.
Rodents include rats, mice squirrels, hamsters, gophers, beavers, guinea pigs, and the largest rodent, the 150 pound capybara which like a cross between a sheep and a giant guinea pig with webbed feet, and can stand on the bottom of the river, holding its breath for many minutes at a time..
I notice that a lot of people class moles, weasels, and other small predators as rodents when they are nothing like it. They have pointy canine teeth, not big incisors. There are two predatory rodents that I know of, the grasshopper mouse and the scorpion mice, but they still have rodent type teeth.

Answer 3

What Animals Are Rodents

Answer 4

Rodentia is an order of mammals also known as rodents, characterised by two continuously-growing incisors in the upper and lower jaws which must be kept short by gnawing.
Forty-percent of mammal species are rodents, and they are found in vast numbers on all continents other than Antarctica. Common rodents include mice, rats, squirrels, chipmunks, gophers, porcupines, beavers, hamsters, gerbils, and guinea pigs. Rodents have sharp incisors that they use to gnaw wood, break into food, and bite predators. Most eat seeds or plants, though some have more varied diets. They have historically been pests, eating human seed stores and spreading disease.

Answer 5

The order rodentia is marked (among other things) by having a large set of front incisors that grow constantly throughout the life of the rodent (and many rodents, but certainly not all, have a large, hairless tail). They comprise a large group of animals from small mice to the very large capybara. They're differentiated from other animals that may look similar such as the order lagomorpha (rabbits, hares and picas) by the fact that the lagomorphs have a double set of incisors rather than a single pair.

Answer 6

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What animals are considered to be rodents?

Answer 7

Rodents are a mammal that have insicors in both the upper and lower jaw that grow continuously throughout their life.

As such, animals that are classified as rodents include: mice, rats, squirrels, chipmunks, gophers, porcupines, beavers, hamsters, gerbils, guinea pigs and the capeobera which can grow to over 40lbs.

Answer 8

A good source is wiki:
Rodentia is an order of mammals also known as rodents, characterised by two continuously-growing incisors in the upper and lower jaws which must be kept short by gnawing.


That covers beavers, squirrels, rats, mice, porcupines, hutias, gerbils, voles, marmots and the like...

Answer 9

The name rodent comes from the Latin 'rodere', meaning 'to gnaw'. Rodents are characterized by four large, constantly-growing incisors in the front of the mouth, which the animal must wear down by gnawing or eating hard foods.

Examples of rodents include rats, mice, hamsters, gerbils, guinea pigs, squirrels, porcupines, beavers, hutias and capybara.

In response to some of the other answers given - mink, ferrets, moles, shrews and opossums are not rodents! Mink and ferrets are mustelids (belonging to the weasel family). Moles and shrews are insectivores. Opossums are marsupials.

Answer 10

rabbits aren,t rodent
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