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Mountain BeaverRelated Category: Vertebrate Zoology stout, short-limbed North American rodent, Aplodontia rufa, not closely related to the true beaver.
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Mountain Beaver (Aplodontia rufa)
No photo of the Mountain Beaver available.
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Mountain beaver - APLODONTIA RUFA
Class: Animals with Milk Glands (Mammalia)
Subclass: True Mammals (Eutheria)
Order: Gnawing Mammals (Rodentia)
Family: Aplodontidae.
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Mountain beaver
Animals / Mammals / Rodentia (1987) / Sciurognathi (1759) / Aplodontidae (1) / Aplodontia (1)
Genus Aplodontia
contains 1 species ...
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Family Aplodontiidae: mountain beaver (North America) Family Sciuridae: squirrels, chipmunks, and marmots (cosmopolitan except Australia) Family Gliridae: dormice (Africa, Eurasia) Family Castoridae: beavers (Holarctic) ...
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Some scientists think the Mountain Beaver is the world's most primitive living rodent, similar in appearance and behavior to animals that lived 60 million years ago.
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A bold, solitary stalker of small game, the bobcat's diet consists mainly of mice and rabbits, but it has been known to kill muskrats, mountain beavers, foxes and weasels.
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This group includes squirrels of many kinds, Old World dormice, and a strange species called mountain beavers.
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The living rodent with the most archaic characters, most like the common ancestor of the Rodentia, is the sewellel or mountain beaver (which is not a true beaver at all) of the northwestern United States.
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 See also: Beaver, Capybara, Burro, Chordata, Porcupine
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