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    Rabbits

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    Bucky & Cottonball

    • Lagomorphs, not rodents

    • Eastern cottontails are their wild cousins

    • Herbivores

    • Lagomorphs are one of the oldest mammalian groups

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    Domestic Ferrets

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    Buddy & Henry

    • Domesticated over 2500 years ago in Europe

    • Extremely flexible spine with 44 vertebrae

    • Distant relative of Black footed ferret, one of North America's most endangered mammals

    • Mustelid family (MD has 5 mustelid species)

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    Opossum

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    Vinnie

    • North America's only marsupial

    • Prehensile tail useful as safety line, but not to sleep hanging upside down

    • Omnivore with varied diet

    • 4 opposable thumbs

    Chinchilla

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    Ben, Smokey, & Max

    • Herbivores

    • Critically endangered in the wild

    • In the rodent family

    • Extremely soft fur with about 50 hairs per follicle