Dormice Sentence Examples

The intestine (except in the dormice or Gliridae) has a large caecum.

In the dormice, forming the section Myoxidea, with the single family Gliridae (or Myoxidae), a single pair of premolars may or may not be present; the molars are short-crowned and rooted, with transverse From de Winton.

Dormice a r e small arboreal rodents, with long hairy tails, large eyes and ears, and short fore-limbs, ranging over Europe, Asia and Africa.

Other allied African genera are Steatomys and Lophuromys, which include several species of small mouse-like rodents, with the habits of dormice generally, though some burrow in cornfields.

Squirrels and dormice are very destructive to the nut crop, as they not only take for present consumption but for a store for future supply.

The beavers (Castoridae) are restricted to the northern hemisphere, whereas the dormice (Gliridae) and the mole-rats (Spalacidae) are exclusively Old World forms, the latter only entering the north of Africa, in which continent the former are largely developed.

All the dormice are small rodents (although many of them are double the size of the British species), of arboreal habits, and for the most part of squirrel-like appearance; some of their most distinctive features being internal.

In their arboreal life, and the habit of sitting up on their hind-legs with their food grasped in the fore-paws, dormice are like squirrels, from which they differ in being completely nocturnal.

In the case of dormice these marks are quite distinctive and finding dormouse eaten nuts forms the basis of our survey.

Salt fish, oysters, mussels or the specially fattened dormice cooked in a variety of ways.

The survey depends on looking for eaten hazelnuts - an important food source which enable dormice to put on weight for winter hibernation.

The hazelnut provides a useful supply of winter food for many animals and birds including jays, squirrels and dormice.

Since dormice are strictly nocturnal and usually forage in the tree canopy, the chance of coming across any is extremely unlikely.

In times of shortage, dormice will eat insects and are able to become torpid.

All rodents, with the sole exception of the dormice, have a caecum, often of great length and sacculated,, as in hares, the water-rat and porcupines; and the long colon in some, as the hamster and water-rat, is spirally twisted upon itself near the commencement.

The Nannosciurinae, or second sub-family of Sciuridae, are represented only by the pigmy squirrels (Nannosciurus), characterized by their very short-crowned molars (which approximate to those of dormice in structure) and small premolars, of which the first upper pair is often deciduous, while the upper molars have only three oblique ridges.