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Rodents including beavers, guinea pigs, mice, hamsters, and chinchillas are known cecotrophs. [2] [3] Other animals also eat cecotropes, such as the common ringtail possum and the coppery ringtail possum. [4] The act of eating cecotropes is referred to as cecotrophy, which is distinct from coprophagy which is the eating of feces proper.
These sites lack important resources, so the animals do not stay there permanently. Beavers have increasingly settled at or near human-made environments, including agricultural areas, suburbs, golf courses, and shopping malls. [48] North American beaver eating lily pads. Beavers have an herbivorous and a generalist diet.
The mountain beaver (Aplodontia rufa) [Note 1] is a North American rodent.It is the only living member of its genus, Aplodontia, and family, Aplodontiidae. [2] It should not be confused with true North American and Eurasian beavers, to which it is not closely related; [3] the mountain beaver is instead more closely related to squirrels, although its less-efficient renal system was thought to ...
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Beavers are well known for building dams across streams and constructing their lodges in the artificial ponds which form. When building in a pond, the beavers first make a pile of sticks and then eat out one or more underwater entrances and two platforms above the water surface inside the pile. The first is used for drying off.
Trappers in Alberta, Canada commonly assert North American river otters are major predators of North American beavers. [33] A 1994 river otter study reported findings of beaver remains in 27 of 1,191 scats analyzed. [33] However, many other studies did not report any findings of North American beaver remains in the scat sampled. [54] [57]
A so-called "cathedral" mound produced by a termite colony. Structures built by non-human animals, often called animal architecture, [1] are common in many species. Examples of animal structures include termite mounds, ant hills, wasp and beehives, burrow complexes, beaver dams, elaborate nests of birds, and webs of spiders.
Oligophagy is a term for intermediate degrees of selectivity, referring to animals that eat a relatively small range of foods, either because of preference or necessity. [2] Another classification refers to the specific food animals specialize in eating, such as: Carnivore: the eating of animals Araneophagy: eating spiders; Avivore: eating birds