lagomorph

• “I aim to have viewed every captioned kitty and labelled lagomorph and readable rodent that the site has to offer before my tonsils have returned to their normal size.”

  I is sick

• “The lagomorph, the largest ever seen, appears to have had reduced aerobic capacity and to have walked slowly rather than jumped quickly.”

  The Guardian: New to Nature No 57: Nuralagus rex

• “Trackback by Prolagus's lagomorph soup — May 19, 2010 #”

  KN | Kitsune Noir » Space Suit of the Week

• “But I'm a meek and scared lagomorph these days, and the acolytes at CA make my ears twitch, it is really annoying.”

  A Puzzler, where did Loehle go too far?

• “This is the primary way to distinguish a rodent from a lagomorph.”

  Open thread: questions and explanations - The Panda's Thumb

• “Tim Lambert (aka Deltoid) calls Plimer out as Tim Lambert (aka Deltoid) calls Plimer out as Plimer the Plagerist, Ian Enting got a good laugh, but after 46 pages of listing Plimerrors was found rolling on the floor and had to be sedated, Eli Rabett, that excellent lagomorph, went out for a few jars of absinthe after a couple of paragraphs and has mercifully forgotten what he read.”

  Archive 2009-10-01

• “Other species recorded from the Kurile Islands include: six insectivores, six chiropterans, nine carnivores, nine rodents, and one lagomorph.”

  South Sakhalin-Kurile mixed forests

• “I am, in fact, devoted to them: I belong to the alternate universe of lagomorph aficionados called The House Rabbit Society and own two free-roaming bunnies.”

  Agnieszka Tennant: The Easter Bunny's Seedy Underbelly

• “There is, however, a ‘100 year’ European lagomorph: the Broom hare Lepus castroviejoi Palacios, 1977 of the Catabrian Mountains of north-west Spain, a species regarded as merely a population of the European hare L. europaeus until 1976 (Palacios 1977).”

  The first new European mammal in 100 years? You must be joking

• “Gregory (1910) drew attention to the arterial foramen present in the last cervical vertebra, supposedly uniquely shared by lagomorphs and marsupials (but actually occurring more widely among placentals); Hartman (1925) showed that egg development in the lagomorph fallopian tube was uniquely marsupial-like; and Petrides (1950) pointed out that lagomorphs are unique among placentals in possessing a pre-penile scrotum, a character also otherwise limited to marsupials.”

  Archive 2006-05-01

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