Exotics Flashcards
Rabbits
Prey species
evolved to be lightweight and fast
Burrowing herbivores
What are the communities rabbits live in
Warrens
Rabbit eyes
wide field of view due to lateral orientation
Blindspot below the mouth
Third eyelid
Rabbit ears
Highly vascular-take blood
Auditory reception
Heat regulation
What are the ears that hang down referred to
Lops
Rabbit Fur
Females have dewlop and perform nesting
Rabbit feet
Fur covers the toes and feet
Do not have foodpads
Rabbit teeth
Second pair of upper incisors are referred to as peg teeth or wolf teeth
Hyposodontic
Teeth are continuously growing
Cecotrophs
Night feces or soft feces
Contain nitrogen, electrolytes, vitamins
Rabbit digestive system
Appendix
Cecum
Sacculus
Breeds of Rabbit
Dutch Belted, Lionhead, Angora, Flemish Giant, Holland Lop
What do you not give a rabbit to eat
Fruits, sweets, crackers, toast or other complex carbohydrates
Reptiles-Shell
Evolved from ribs
Carapace shell
Dorsal shell
Plastron
Ventral shell
Scutes
Keratin that covers the outer periosteum of the shell
Turtle Heart
Three-chambered
two atria and one ventricle
Reptile lungs
Ventral to the carapace
Do turtles have a diaphragm
No. They ventilate from the movement of skeletal muscles and flexion and extension of limbs
Male turtles and tortoises
Tortoises have a concave plastron
Water turtles have elongated nails
Box turtles have brilliant red eys
Tortoise
Herbivore
Strictly terrestrial
Large hard scale
Thick domed shells
Hermann’s tortoise
Sulcata
Leopard tortoise
Tortoise breeds
Turtle
Omnivores Semiaquatic Flattened shells Smooth skin webbed feet Except Box Turtles