Pictures and facts about the Mountain beaver

Mountain beaver

Order : Rodentia
Suborder : Sciurognathi
Family : Aplodontidae
Genus : Aplodontia

Facts about the genus Aplodontia, the mountain beaver

Aplodontia is generally regarded as the most primitive living rodent. (Full text)

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

The genus, Aplodontia, is thought to have originated in western North America since the Pleistocene era (Parker and Wood 1990). (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)

) Aplodontia is a reference to the Pogo character Miz Beaver. (Full text)

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

] The Aplodontia is a Pacific Northwest native rodent, and is considered to be the most primitive rodent in existence - a true living fossil. (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)

Main Entry: aplodontia aplodontia is one of more than 1,000,000 entries available at Merriam-WebsterUnabridged. (Full text)

Of these, the last is the most appropriate; for Aplodontia is only distantly related to the American Beaver (Castor canadensis), the builder of dams and lodges. (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)

The email address for aplodontia is: weasle. (Full text)

The Mountain Beaver is from the order Rodentia. (Full text)

Aplodontia is an outgroup for the squirrel phylogeny. (Full text)

  Also called the sewellel after the Chinook term for a robe made from its fur, Aplodontia is ugly, stinky, and host to the world's largest fleas: truly an animal only a legislature could love. (Full text)