tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4209921721314660731.post1787555872388782527..comments2024-03-10T19:39:07.469+00:00Comments on Synapsida: Why Rabbits Aren't RodentsJK Revellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00358838350092883422noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4209921721314660731.post-1967768768875074212021-10-11T04:59:39.804+01:002021-10-11T04:59:39.804+01:00Weren't lagomorphs a rodent suborder for a cen...Weren't lagomorphs a rodent suborder for a century, and elevated to the rank of order due to phylopessimism a hundred years ago? In any case, one could go a node further ahead and work the case of why hystricomorphs aren't *unnamed clade made up of the rest of rodents*. But, the case of lagomorphs has issues, mostly because it gets twisted, as people explain it as if rabbits were unrelated to rodents, or as if the resemblances were just casual, with the differences being the only thing to matter (again, as in phylopessimism).<br /><br />The characters that tell lagomorphs apart from rodents, AFAIK, weren't used to define rodent to begin with; they were looked for, then used to exclude lagomorphs from rodents, as they not being closely related was the potential worry back when they got their own order.<br /><br />Oh well, at least cavies didn't get their own order as well when the same thing happened to them.<br /><br />Still, saying a rabbit is a rodent is far less of a mistake than saying a shrew, or an ayeaye, is a rodent, in my opinion.Eriorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01931957446960179024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4209921721314660731.post-63764657384827047482021-03-30T18:54:50.719+01:002021-03-30T18:54:50.719+01:00Yes, I wrote about them here: https://synapsida.bl...Yes, I wrote about them here: https://synapsida.blogspot.com/2019/08/smallish-british-mammals-beavers.htmlJK Revellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00358838350092883422noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4209921721314660731.post-1424975448900220702021-03-30T05:44:31.771+01:002021-03-30T05:44:31.771+01:00Jamie, beavers don't seem to me to belong to t...Jamie, beavers don't seem to me to belong to the order Rodentia. Have you written about beavers? from GGAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06520202988908128388noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4209921721314660731.post-12539068659531643952020-03-13T11:17:56.766+00:002020-03-13T11:17:56.766+00:00You wrote absolutely right thing. Rabits don't...You wrote absolutely right thing. Rabits don't eat meat or rabbit's incisors do not grow lifetime. I also wrote an article <a href="https://www.petsworldtoday.in/are-rabbits-rodents-cute-bunny-facts/" rel="nofollow"> are rabbits rodents or not?, </a> you can see.Venus Nandihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05878395826679269671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4209921721314660731.post-19694104670862636602015-11-07T16:21:48.136+00:002015-11-07T16:21:48.136+00:00It's not absolutely certain, but it's thou...It's not absolutely certain, but it's thought that they're probably milk teeth that are simply not lost/replaced as the animal reaches adulthood.JK Revellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00358838350092883422noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4209921721314660731.post-30911651468482364742015-11-06T05:45:03.521+00:002015-11-06T05:45:03.521+00:00Is the second pair of incisors of rabbits milk tee...Is the second pair of incisors of rabbits milk teeth or adult teeth?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04660338534812675348noreply@blogger.com