Pictures and facts about the Mountain beaver

Mountain beaver

Order : Rodentia
Suborder : Sciurognathi
Family : Aplodontidae

Facts about the family Aplodontidae, the mountain beaver

The sight and the hearing of the mountain beaver are very poor but their senses of smell and touch are well developed. (Full text)

Of the groups listed below, one, Family Aplodontidae, is not represented in Montana. (Full text)

Some of the known predators of mountain beaver are bobcats, mink, weasels and coyote (Sleeper 1997). (Full text)

Feeding Behavior Mountain beaver are generalist herbivores, apparently using nearly all vegetation close at hand. (Full text)

USFWS Refuges on which the Point Arena mountain beaver is reported. (Full text)

curGroupID=5&curFamilyID=559'); CallAdv(); CreateTd(3) Mountain beaver are generally solitary but readily accept visitors, both their own kind and salamanders, frogs or deer mice. (Full text)

[edit] Closest Relatives The Mountain Beaver is considered a living fossil by many researchers due to the presence of a host of primitive characters, particularly the protrogomorphous zygomasseteric system. (Full text)

BASIC INFORMATION The mountain beaver is not really a true beaver. (Full text)

Food: Mountain beaver are strict herbivores and eat just about any type of succulent vegetation available including plants that are often inedible to other species such as nettle, bracken fern, and salal. (Full text)

(Aplodontidae is the old scientific name for the family of rodents to which the beaver belongs. (Full text)

The mountain beaver is about 12 in. (Full text)

Mountain beaver are not easy to photograph to say the least. (Full text)

Mountain Beaver is a 'pest' (an unwanted organism) that can be controlled through the use of pesticides. (Full text)

Pesticides, such as products to control Mountain Beaver, are regulated by State Departments of Agriculture. (Full text)

The mountain beaver is so attached to an underground existence that it is rarely to be seen in the light of day, and consequently is hard to capture--which might explain why the Indians seemed not to understand Lewis's request. (Full text)

Mountain beaver are semi-fossorial rodents and well adapted for their burrowing lifestyle. (Full text)

The Point Reyes mountain beaver is a unique subspecies that exists almost exclusively within Point Reyes National Seashore. (Full text)

of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA The clade Aplodontoidea, composed of the families Mylagaulidae and Aplodontidae, is one of the (Full text)

of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA The clade Aplodontoidea, composed of the families Mylagaulidae and Aplodontidae, is one of the most widespread and diverse groups of rodents in the late Oligocene and Miocene of North America. (Full text)