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I found another nifty skull when I was adding some teaching collection specimens to the database.
This one is of a modern marmot that had severely overgrown incisors.
Some times I ponder just how easily such things happen, the steps that turn a nifty biological idea, like ever-growing teeth on rodents, from an advantage, into a detriment to the animal. Inevitably it turns my thoughts to the fine biological line we all walk and the balance our bodies strive to maintain to keep us alive.
This one is of a modern marmot that had severely overgrown incisors.
Some times I ponder just how easily such things happen, the steps that turn a nifty biological idea, like ever-growing teeth on rodents, from an advantage, into a detriment to the animal. Inevitably it turns my thoughts to the fine biological line we all walk and the balance our bodies strive to maintain to keep us alive.
Image size
4400x3200px 4.24 MB
Make
SONY
Model
DSC-W90
Shutter Speed
10/400 second
Aperture
F/2.8
Focal Length
6 mm
ISO Speed
320
Date Taken
Jul 18, 2012, 7:21:36 AM
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Oh yeah, rodents have a huge problem with those ever-growing teeth! I had a pet rat named Mochi whose teeth had become misaligned. Rats teeth are set up so that they grind each other down, but his didn't contact as they should, and I had to cut his teeth every few days with a guillotine-style cat nail trimmer, otherwise he wouldn't be able to eat!
But it also has its advantages -- one of my other rats, Benny, tore out a tooth when he was trying to bite something through his cage. I worried about having to mush up his food, but THE VERY NEXT DAY it had grown back already. xD
But it also has its advantages -- one of my other rats, Benny, tore out a tooth when he was trying to bite something through his cage. I worried about having to mush up his food, but THE VERY NEXT DAY it had grown back already. xD