Leporidae

The Magic of Montana As I walked through the wild roses and Indian Paintbrushes one early morning in the backwoods, I got caught up in the magic of Montana. At the beginning of this experience, I felt as if I was peaking in my wildlife field experience, but as I continued to work, my eyes were opened to the endless opportunities of life. I realized that this wonderful experience was just raising the bar for my future. I have always been so structured; thinking that I had to finish school before I started life. What I did not realize until now is that life started a long time ago, and there are no rules for the direction I go except for the ones I establish. I think about my trip to Montana as a John Muir quote. Muir once said, "I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found was really going in." The opportunity presented to go to Montana for the summer was a field job trapping Snowshoe Hares and collecting data under Dr. L. Scott Mills. Dr. Mills has been studying the effects of forest management/type on Snowshoe Hare abundance in Western Montana for eighteen years this year. As a Wildlife Science major who had already had a slight taste of the West, this opportunity was absolute perfection. After interviewing, it was not long before I was asked by Dr. Mills himself if I was "ready to go to Montana." It was a surreal moment. The door was open, and I was going out west for an entire summer to work on an eighteen year, very…

I learned many new things from this book such as bunny latin. What I mean is the latin would call rabbits Leporidae. Another interesting thing I learned is that rabbits do not hibernate. They can use their warm fur coats to protect them through the winter. Did you know that in one litter there can be 1-14 babies but usually there is about six. Female rabbits make about four or more litters a year, that's 24 babies! I think that Kristin Petrie did a good job of explaining everything.…

Our rabbit, which measured twenty-two inches in length by six inches in width, beared a few similarities to the minks we previously dissected. Taxonomically, minks and rabbits are quite different; whereas rabbits are of the order Lagomorpha and Leporidae family, minks belong to the order Carnivora and Mustelidae family (Animal Diversity Web). Despite these differences, however, their internal structures were composed rather similarly. For example, both the mink’s liver and the rabbit’s liver…

Rabbits are small mammals in the family Leporidae of the order Lagomorpha, found in several parts of the world. There are eight different genera in the family classified as rabbits. Today their are more than 50 different species of rabbit and the number continues to increase as the selective breeding of pet rabbits becomes more popular. The expected lifespan of a rabbit is about 9 to 12 years. The oldest rabbit on record was 18 year old. They are characterized by long ears and legs, large…

pattern is also found in some fish, and in crocodilians. In most teleost fish, however, the teeth are attached to the outer surface of the bone, while in lizards they are attached to the inner surface of the jaw by one side. In cartilaginous fish, such as sharks, the teeth are attached by tough ligaments to the hoops of cartilage that form the jaw. Some animals develop only one set of teeth while others develop many sets . Sharks, for example, grow a new set of teeth every two weeks to replace…