Rodents

__//**Juan Delgado**//__

In the mammal family there is a group called rodents which is classified by the large growing of two middle teeth and is usually shortened by gnawing on things. The lagomorphs (rabbits) use to be part of the rodent family then scientist found four incisors in its teeth and knew they were only herbivores. The rodent is the mammal that takes up 40% of the mammalian family with over 2,277 different species. Many rodents are small the tiny [|African pygmy mouse], //Mus minutoides,// can be as small as 6 cm in length and 7g in weight at maturity, and the [|Baluchistan pygmy jerboa], //Salpingotulus michaelis,// is of roughly similar or slightly smaller dimensions. On the other hand, the largest extant rodent, the [|capybara], //Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris,// usually weighs up to 140 lb with exceptional specimens weighing up to 200 lb.