What is the order of rodents?
Q: What is the order of rodents?
A: Rodents are in the order Rodentia.
Q: What does the name "rodent" come from?
A: The name "rodent" comes from the Latin word rodere, which means "to gnaw", and dent, which means "tooth".
Q: How many incisors do rodents have?
A: Rodents have no more than 2 incisors.
Q: Are rabbits considered rodents?
A: Rabbits, hares, and pikas are sometimes called rodents because they also have teeth that keep growing, but in 1912 biologists decided to put them in a separate order called Lagomorpha because they have two extra incisors in their upper jaw.
Q: What is the largest living rodent?
A: The largest living rodent is the capybara, which can grow to between 105 and 135 cm (40-55 in) in length, and weigh 35 to 65 kg (75-140 lbs).
Q: Are shrews considered rodents?
A: Shrews are sometimes called rodents because they look like mice, but that is not correct. They are actually in the order Insectivora.
Q: How many mammal species are there altogether?
A: Almost half of all mammal species are rodents.
