[Answer] Small rodent crossword clue

• Small rodentRodent molars are well equipped to grind food into particles. The jaw musculature is strong. The lower jaw is thrust forward while gnawing and is pulled backwards during chewing. Rodent groups differ in the arrangement of the jaw muscles and associated skull structures, both from other mammals and amongst themselves.Rodents are animals that gnaw with two continuously growing incisors.Forty percent of mammal species are rodents, and they inhabit every continent except Antarctica. This list contains 2,276 species in 489 genera in the order Rodentia.The best-known rat species are the black rat (Rattus rattus) and the brown rat (Rattus norvegicus).This group, generally known as the Old World rats or true rats, originated in Asia.Rats are bigger than most Old World mice, which are their relatives, but seldom weigh over 500 grams (1.1 lb) in the wild.. The term rat is also used in the names of other mammals that are not true rats. Soldiers is a 1998 American science fiction film, directed by Joe Dante and starring Kirsten Dunst and Gregory Smith, and the voices of Frank Langella and Tommy Lee Jones. It revolves around a conflict between two factions of sentient action figures, the Gorgonites and the Commando Elite.The California ground squirrel (Otospermophilus beecheyi), also known as the Beechey ground squirrel, is a common and easily observed ground squirrel of the western United States and the Baja California Peninsula; it is common in Oregon and California and its range has relatively recently extended into Washington and northwestern Nevada.

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