RAT

Kingdom: Anamalia

• multicellular with specialized eucharistic cells
• rely on other organisms for nourishment
• ingest food and digest food in an internal cavity
• have their own means of locomotion

Phylum: chordata

• bodies that are the same on each side
• at some point of the life cycle they have a pair of gills or pouches used to obtain oxygen in a liquid invirement
• Have a notochord at some phase in their lifecycle
• Members often have a head ,tail and a digestive system with openings at both ends of their body

Class: Mammalai

• conceive their young within the reproductive tract of their mother
• nourish young with milk produced by the mother's mammary glands
• have specialized teeth
• warm blooded
• have hair and sweat glands
• have a four chambered heart
• have a complex nervous system
• have large brains

Order: Rodentia

• Largest order of mammals
• their dentition is highly specialized for gnawing

Family: Heteromyidae

• small to medium sized rodents
• powerful hind limbs
• a long tufted tail
• relatively short front limbs
• compressed, partly fused neck vertebrate
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Genius: Dipodomys

Species: Dipodomys ingens

references:  Tuffe's Rat page, December thirteenth 2000, http://www.ludd.luth.se/users/tuffe/rats/pics/pics1.html 

Animal Diversity web, January third 2001 http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/dipodomys/d._ingens$narrative.html  

Poem:   Look over there by that tree

           Do you know what you see

            Laying right next to the baseball bat

It is a gigantic rat

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