Thanks for visiting! A few years back, I briefly covered a throwaway Yahoo! article about how âcarbs will make you lose weightâ because so many readers had emailed about it. It turned out that the âcarbsâ in the article were resistant starch, a type of carbohydrate that our digestive enzymes cannot break down. Iâll admit now, with regret, that I didnât look as deeply into the matter as I might have.
Prehensile tails acts like a fifth limb. Monkeys are the most famous creatures with prehensile tails and many tourists on safari have realized this a few moments too late after things vanished before their eyes. Most other animals have non-prehensile tails. source: Kirill Kurashov/shutterstock.com.
The single largest group of mammals is the Rodentia. Most non-flying mammals are rodents: there are about 1,500 living rodent species (out of about 4,000 living mammals overall). Most people are familiar with mice, rats, hamsters, and guinea pigs, which are commonly kept as pets.he Rodentia also includes beavers, muskrats, porcupines, woodchucks, chipmunks, squirrels, prairie dogs, marmots, chinchillas, voles, lemmings, and many others. (Incidentally, the Rodentia does not include rabbits; rabbits differ from rodents in having an extra pair of incisors and in other skeletal features.