Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/10

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Subject: RE: rabbits are not rodents (was: Re: [Leica] How can I stop my rabbit from chewing on the cables)
From: Dante Stella <dante@umich.edu>
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 12:47:36 -0500 (EST)

Pardon my impertinence, but the status of rabbits as related to rodents
was revisited in the past 10 years with DNA testing.  I think it was in
Science.  At any rate DNA makes them rodents, even if taxonomy
doesn't.

Cheers
- ------------
Dante Stella

On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Austin Franklin wrote:

> 
> > For future reference, rabbits are not rodents.  They belong to a different
> family, the > Lagomorphs.  Lagomorphs have a double set of incisors, the
> second set behind the first.
> 
> So, the only thing separating Rabbits from Rats are their teeth?
> 
>