All About Rodents What is a Rodent? The largest group of mammals by far is the rodents. More than one-third of all mammals (over 2,000 species) are rodents. They are found all over the …

Rodents are nearly blind, using their sense of touch for guidance. Their long hairs, or "guard" hairs, are used for guidance as they move along walls and other objects.

What’s a rodent? noun . any of the relatively small placental mammals that constitute the order Rodentia, having constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing. Why do we need to …

Rodents burrow through dams and irrigation structures, gnaw through communications cables and damage electronics, and consume or contaminate stored food and other commodities.

In addition to disease transmission, rodents cause millions of dollars of damage to crops and foods each year in the U.S. alone. This lesson covers rodent characteristics as well as the …

Out of the 4,000 mammalian species on earth, over a quarter of them are considered rodents. Despite their species diversity, all rodents share one common feature: they all have a single …

As with all commensal rodents, there is a potential for the transmission of a number of diseases to humans from handling the rodent, or from bites, droppings or their arthropod parasites.