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: "Austin Franklin" <austin@darkroom.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:12:04 -0500

That's kind of funny.  Just think, someone spent the price of a very nice M
and R outfit, just to 'prove' (what ever that means) that Rabbits had the
same DNA as Rats?  Wow!

- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Dante
Stella
Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 12:48 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: RE: rabbits are not rodents (was: Re: [Leica] How can I stop my
rabbit from chewing on the cables)



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?
>
>