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Handout
Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: American Mammals: Chisel Toothed Kangaroo Rat

For Students 4th - 8th
The Chisel-toothed Kangaroo Rat has chisel-shaped lower incisors, with which it strips the epidermis from the leaves of desert shadscale or saltbush, thereby reaching the palatable and water-rich interior of the leaf. This Kangaroo Rat...