Rodent on every continent except Antarctica. They are the only terrestrial placental mammals to have colonized Australia and New Guinea without human intervention. Humans have also allowed the animals to spread to many remote oceanic islands (e.g., the Polynesian rat). Rodents have adapted to almost every terrestrial habitat, from cold tundra (where they can live under snow) to hot deserts. Some species such as tree squirrels and New World porcupines are arboreal, while some, such as gophers, tuco-tucos, and mole rats, live almost completely underground, where they build complex burrow systems. Others dwell on the surface of the ground, but may
Fauna of Honduras Fauna of Honduras The republic of Honduras is a Central American country, geographically situated inside the tropics, this habitat allows thousand of species to adapt easily to its lands, therefore has a wide variety of flora and fauna species, humans among them. Many of these species are becoming extinct, which has posed to the Honduran government, offices and naturalist organizations that promote and look after the protection so much the biodiversity of species, like the existent natural reservations. Fauna in Honduras is very rich and varied. The most common are arboreal or live in the fluvial currents lacustrine waters. Big