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The Aplodontia is a nocturnal rodent which lives in the Pacific Northwest region of North America.
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All About Aplodontia
Aplodontia is also known as the "Mountain Beaver." However, this rodent is not actually related to beavers at all. It lives in the Pacific Northwest portion of North America and makes its home in forests that tend to stay wet but don't get too cold or snowy in winter.Besides being called Mountain Beavers, Aplodontia is also called sewellel, boomer and giant mole.
Mountain beavers live in underground burrows and are vegetarian. They are mostly brown in color and have short little tails. Like many other rodents, their teeth are ever-growing so they do a lot of chewing and knawing to keep them from getting too long.
What do Aplodontia eat?
Aplodontia are vegetarians who live in the woods, and they like to eat plants such as ferns, tree seedlings and roots.
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National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mammals: (Revised and Expanded) (National Audubon Society Field Guides)
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Life Underground: The Biology of Subterranean Rodents
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Learn About the Aplodontia
- Homepage of Vladimir Dinets-Quest for Aplodontia
- page from a personal web-site about mountain beavers
- Mountain Beaver (Aplodontia rufa)
- Researchers and biologists have long been aware of this most unusual and interesting species, first reported by Lewis and Clark. Like most people however, few have actually seen the species in the wild.
- Mountain Beaver - Aplodontia
- That "small animal about the size of a squirrel" with the fur of which Lewis wished his "Tiger Cat" capote to be lined, may have been the one that he soon learned was locally called sewelel.
- Mountain Beaver - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- The Mountain Beaver (Aplodontia rufa) is a primitive rodent unrelated to beavers and not usually found in mountainous areas.
- Eco-USA Fauna Profiles: Aplodontia
- Photo of the Aplodontia, Aplodontia rufa
- North American Mammals: Aplodontia rufa
- 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.
- Pictures of the mountain beaver|Aplodontia rufa facts
- The mountain beaver (Aplodontia rufa) is an interesting but little known mammal unique to the Pacific Northwest
- Mountain Beaver Skull from Skulls Unlimited
- Mountain beavers, not a true beaver, are heavy bodied rodents with short limbs. They are considered the most primitive living rodent.
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