Mountain Beaver ( Aplodontia rufa )
Aplodontia rufa (Harvard University)
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Mountain Beaver
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stout, short-limbed North American rodent, Aplodontia rufa, not closely related to the true beaver.
Mountain Beaver (Aplodontia rufa)
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Mountain Beaver
Order: Rodentia
Family: Aplodontidae
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They occasionally use the large burrows of mountain beavers (Aplodontia rufa) as forms. Diurnal activity level increases during the breeding season. Juveniles are usually more active and less cautious than adults [53].
Family Aplodontiidae: mountain beaver (North America)
Family Sciuridae: squirrels, chipmunks, and marmots (cosmopolitan except Australia)
Family Gliridae: dormice (Africa, Eurasia)
Family Castoridae: beavers (Holarctic) ...
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.
This group includes squirrels of many kinds, Old World dormice, and a strange species called mountain beavers.
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.
 See also: Beaver, Capybara, Burro, Chordata, Porcupine
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